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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.quora.com/What-are-pros-and-cons-of-PostgreSQL-and-MySQL-With-respect-to-reliability-speed-scalability-and-features — Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect — Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBenchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second https://engineering.linkedin.com/kafka/benchmarking-apache-kafka-2-million-writes-second-three-cheap-machines — Real-time data's unifying abstraction in LinkedIn
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFor microservices, the goal is velocity. Measure velocity by answering the following two questions: • How fast can a developer make a single line of code change and safely deploy it into production? • How fast can a new developer ramp up and safely make changes to a code base? — Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.kennybastani.com/2017/07/microservices-to-service-blocks-spring-cloud-function-aws-lambda.html — Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0NjbwqlYw — Riemann zeta function
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://towardsdatascience.com/no-machine-learning-is-not-just-glorified-statistics-26d3952234e3 — No, Machine Learning is not just glorified statistics
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://xmuplus.github.io/ — Open offices, closed minds from The Economist
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe secret about sleep, to those who get enough of it, are more successful, judged better, fit and healthy enough to enjoy their greater success. Research shows sleep-deprived employees are less productive, less motivated, less creative, lazier, unhappier and more unethical. So to get enough sleep and thereby maintain a high performance level without burning out.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australia-s-population-clock-hits-25-million-20180806-p4zvv7.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://zerohedge.whotrades.com/blog/43444176895 — Morgan Stanley : Our Conviction Has Grown Stronger That "Easy Is Over".
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoldman Sachs World Cup 2018 prediction https://plus.google.com/photos/112201754385215382872/albums/6576012595226095441/6576012594932419858 — Things are getting better and more interesting if you look back them in retrospect. In Goldman Sachs lengthy, deep, profound, drill-through and very pretty but unless World Cup 2018 report, the Investment powerhouse claimed, based on its forecast on data mining, machine learning, it used 200,000 statistical models, sifted data on individual players and recent team performance and ran 1 million simulations of the tournament. As a result, it predicts that Brazil will lift the trophy on July 15. There are so much for the unpredictable nature of a beautiful game.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoldman Sachs 2018 THE WORLD CUP AND ECONOMICS http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/world-cup-2018/multimedia/report.pdf — Things are getting better and more interesting if you look back them in retrospect. In Goldman Sachs lengthy, deep, profound, drill-through and very pretty but unless World Cup 2018 report, the Investment powerhouse claimed, based on its forecast on data mining, machine learning, it used 200,000 statistical models, sifted data on individual players and recent team performance and ran 1 million simulations of the tournament. As a result, it predicts that Brazil will lift the trophy on July 15. There are so much for the unpredictable nature of a beautiful game.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRussell Investments - 2015 Long-term investing Report https://www.asx.com.au/documents/resources/russell-asx-long-term-investing-report-2015.pdf — Vanguard performance chart 1985 - 2016
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoVanguard Index Chart 1985 - 2016 https://static.vgcontent.info/crp/intl/auw/docs/resources/index_chart.pdf — Vanguard performance chart 1985 - 2016
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao Australian Finance Industry Association (AFIA) Small business lenders code of lending practice https://www.afia.asn.au/aosbl — Fintech is the new finance buzzword. But behind the bar they are just lenders, unregulated lenders on the internet. It's led to an explosion of what some are calling online loan sharks, accused of stitching up small businesses with interest rates of up to 60%. Watch out the players in this place - Prospa, Capify, banjo, GETCAPTAL, Moula, ondeck, spotcap ... Time to fish. Turn the key and start boat.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI think eventually you are right and the market will continue on its way upwards. The only question is how far it will fall. When sentiment is so negative there is less urgency to buy on the part of locals and new immigrants. Also, it is less easy to get money out of China and local banks are tightening so the effect of immigration on house prices over the next few years is questionable. Many will come and rent a small high rise apartment with their families until the market turns. Just go to an Auction anywhere in Sydney - new immigrants are nowhere to be seen. Without easy outflow of money from China and with the devaluation of the Yuan, I think you will find that with the exception of a few very wealthy who are not as sensitive to market fluctuations, most immigrants are not as cashed up as they may have been. Remember that even in Hong Kong (which had a huge excess of demand over supply at the time) the market nearly halved some years back. Of course it eventually came back stronger, but when sentiment changes in a bubble environment (as I believe this have became) no-one is spared. I could mention other factors too, such as the increasing number of young people and families leaving the big cities, the absentee landlords who live overseas and will likely sell and take their gains and the baby boomers who will sell to cash in and fund their retirement, but for the next 2 or 3 years prices are unlikely to move up and I still believe will drop significantly. As I said, I may be wrong :) — Winners and losers of Australian Housing 2017 - 2018
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoComment from a retired banker: I have been observing the Sydney market for a while now and it seems to me that the situation is much bleaker than that being reported (which is already fairly negative). As I have commented previously in these Columns, I wonder whether the "Experts" actually ever go out and talk to Agents or visit Auctions because if they did I think they would see that things are much worse than their computer generated statistics indicate. Average price rises or falls in Sydney or Melbourne disguise the reality of different sectors of very different markets. Aside from the distinct house and apartment markets, there are of course sub-markets within them including the off the plan foreign investor market, the "A Class" market (i.e. where people really want to live due to good Schools or proximity to work), the "B Class" market (i.e. those where people really did not want to live but bought, often in desperation and frustration because of being priced out everywhere else) and C, D etc. Mixing them all together gives a distorted picture. Unless a property is one that really ticks all the boxes: (1) Auctions are being very poorly attended (by genuine bidders) and there is often only one or two bidders (2) Foreign investor activity has dropped to a trickle (3) Prices in a lot of the A Class areas have come down a lot more than the reported 5% over the past year. Prices have fallen 10% or even more depending on the property and area compared to the days in 2016 and early 2017 when prices were pumped up an extra 5% just due to the craziness at the Auctions. If you do not believe me, then ask your local Agent or better still try to get a loan based on a value that is only 5% less than last year - in most cases you will not - you will be lucky to get a loan valuation even 20% less than last year in the areas that had increased the most. This is probably only the start of the downturn because wages are going nowhere and interest rates trending slowly upwards. The downturn will likely accelerate in Spring and Summer as more properties come onto the market and interest rates start to rise independently of RBA decisions due to increased funding costs. In addition, the uncertainty as to whether there will be a Labor Government (with the accompanying restrictions on negative gearing) means that unless you really have to buy ........ you should not. Most industry players I speak to quietly expect prices to come back another 5% or more before the year end and for the downward slide to continue until at least end of next year. Prices will fall until reaching equilibrium with loan values and wages. Expect larger numbers of properties for sale and longer times to sell. I don't say all this with pleasure as I think a lot of people are going to be in pain by year end and I am a property owner myself. The pain will not only be due to the falls in the property market, but also due to a whole lot of other factors including the struggling retail environment. The drop in activity in the property market alone will see a lot of people associated with the property industry out of a job (or on reduced remuneration). Just take a look at the share price of McGrath and you can bet that company will not be on a hiring spree! As a retired banker I always like to admit (reluctantly!) that I have been wrong in the past and that I might be wrong this time as things often turn out differently to what I expect. Who knows, maybe Malcolm Turnbull will suddenly take the bull by the horns and give us sudden economic growth and wages growth. I personally think that is about as likely as Bill Shorten handing back his Union membership but crazier things have happened. I worry for our young people and advise my own adult kids (who are about as interested in my advice as anyone reading this is likely to be) that unless you have a very secure job or substantial assets, this is no time to be buying property. The only reason property may appear cheap now is because of how far it has inflated on the back of historically low interest rates. If wages are not growing then banks will continue to restrict lending and prices are unlikely to rise. Now that the Banks are valuing more conservatively, it is inevitable prices will in fact continue to fall unless we import a whole lot of immigrants with suitcases full of cash! On the subject of immigration, I believe the anti-immigration voices will only grow louder and the Chinese in particular are currently feeling "unloved" by Australia right now - without any prospect of capital gains in the near future they will turn their attention elsewhere. We will also find less "students" coming here given the general anti-immigrant environment. For those who talk about demand and supply or about the limited impact of historical downturns I don't buy it. When Banks reduce lending and interest rates start rising then property can only go one way. Unfortunately, we are finally going to pay for years of poor Government and RBA policy. If wages were rising, the prospect would be different, but in most sectors the trend to part time work and outsourcing will restrict wage growth. The job cuts we have seen at Telstra are indicative in my view of the excess fat at many of our large lazy companies. Department stores and other retail chains seem to be rudderless and ill equipped to deal with the Amazons of this world and our big Banks will be next to retrench because they are bloated dinosaurs and face reduced profitability and new online competitors - every time I walk into a Bank branch I wonder how long it will survive as most people do all their banking online and technology will finally make the trip to the Bank redundant. So any recent good news you may have read about lower unemployment or higher GDP is in my view likely temporary at best. If you are really desperate to buy, this purveyor of unwanted advice suggests you make sure you are buying in a good street in a good suburb where the downside risk will be limited. It is not a good time to be buying an average home in an average street and I would definitely stay away from one or two bedroom apartments unless they offer something very special. Many one and two bedroom apartments all over Sydney could well be on fire sale in 2019 and 2020 as foreign investors withdraw or fail to obtain finance. That may well be a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy a cheap apartment, but we are not there yet. Of course, as I said I might be wrong. — Winners and losers of Australian Housing 2017 - 2018
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/sydney-melbourne-housing-prices-tipped-to-fall-further/news-story/32e86d99543a7454640d8e942daf3e1c — Winners and losers of Australian Housing 2017 - 2018
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/Insights/cost-of-living-rankings — Cost of Living, city by city 2018 "Considering Australia’s high salaries, and relative safety and stability, becoming a cheaper place to live compared to our neighbours could mean attracting more investment and talent from international companies."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-develop-react-js-apps-fast-using-webpack-4-3d772db957e4 — Dev-Server config + Server Side rendering + Fonts + Images + Multiple Config Files (for multiple outputs) + React + Typescript - A Clean Architecture for frontend application
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaowikiHow - How to Force Shut Down a Mac https://www.wikihow.com/Force-Shut-Down-a-Mac — My dear Mac, Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.x, not again ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMac will Not Shut Down, How-To Fix https://appletoolbox.com/2016/12/mac-will-not-shut-fix/ — My dear Mac, Sleep Wake Failure with High Sierra 10.13.x, not again ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni I reckon people's retirement savings shouldn't be managed by the profit driven institutes. Current super industry feed full too many parasites. — Time for Super Reform
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australia-among-happiest-nations-in-the-world/news-story/ec7776cec32aec224003de20302b584f — Happiest nations world ranking • Australia, New Zealand and Canada are the three happiest nations in the world outside Europe • Despite a startling increase in GDP, Chinese citizens are no happier than they were 25 years ago Most people when confronted with a major spending decision don’t reflect on GDP forecasts but rather their own wealth outlook.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.kennybastani.com/2015/07/spring-cloud-docker-microservices.html — Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.kennybastani.com/2016/04/event-sourcing-microservices-spring-cloud.html — Building Event-driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoComing up with features is difficult, time-consuming, requires expert knowledge. “Applied machine learning” is basically feature engineering. - Andrew Ng — Differentiable Programming and Software 2.0 "Neural networks are not just another classifier, they represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we write software. They are Software 2.0."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOpen Images Challenge 2018 https://storage.googleapis.com/openimages/web/challenge.html — Google announces the opening of Open Images V4, which contains 15.4 million bounding boxes for 600 categories on 1.9 million images, which is the largest existing dataset with object location annotations. Most of these boxes are manually drawn by professional commentators, ensuring their accuracy and consistency. In addition, these images are very diverse and often contain complex scenes of multiple objects (8 images per image on average).
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPro Games Go releases https://github.com/pytorch/ELF/releases — Open Sourced ELF OpenGo, an AI bot that has defeated world champion professional Go players, based on our existing ELF platform for Reinforcement Learning Research. Facebook is releasing both the trained model and the code used to create it.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.exploringdatascience.com/the-data-science-clock/ — The Data Science Clock
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPersonally I feel Top Down (Bayesian Methods) approach is more closed to human being's cognitive skills & abilities. On the contrary, Bottom Up (Deep Learning) is more like a Brute Force solution. — Children can also make creative and surprising new inferences that go far beyond their experience or background knowledge. So that's why Pablo Picasso once said "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/30/top-five-wrong-reasons-you-dont-have-testers/ — The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code 1. Do you use source control? 2. Can you make a build in one step? 3. Do you make daily builds? 4. Do you have a bug database? 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 7. Do you have a spec? 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? 10. Do you have testers? 11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? 12. Do you do hallway usability testing?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSource: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2017ltr.pdf — 投资智慧,人生智慧 Much anticipated 2017 year end shareholders annual letter from Berkshire Hathaway, the cradle of capitalism, is available online today. Berkshire received $3.7 billion of dividends in 2017. And top 15 and others Berkshire 持股的公司。 Berkshire in simply believe that "if the businesses of the investees are successful (as we believe most will be) our investments will be successful as well. Sometimes the payoffs to us will be modest; occasionally the cash register will ring loudly. And sometimes I will make expensive mistakes. Overall - and over time - we should get decent results. In America, equity investors have the wind at their back." 与对冲基金 Protégé 的十年赌局,从 2007 年到 2017 年,以 Warren Buffett 的完胜告终。 Performance comes, performance goes. Fees never falter. However, for prudent, patient, constant and intelligent investors, you don't need perform brilliantly, brilliance isn't needed. A final lesson from the bet: Stick with big, “easy” decisions and eschew activity. 对于“疯狂”并购,万达,安邦,海航。Why a sensible purchase price makes sense. Why purchase frenzy is wrong: it’s a bit like telling your ripening teenager to be sure to have a normal sex life. It is insane to risk what you have and need in order to obtain what you don’t need. The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own. Investment simple guideline: Though markets are generally rational, they occasionally do crazy things. Seizing the opportunities then offered does not require great intelligence, a degree in economics or a familiarity with Wall Street jargon such as alpha and beta. What investors then need instead is an ability to both disregard mob fears or enthusiasms and to focus on a few simple fundamentals. A willingness to look unimaginative for a sustained period - or even to look foolish - is also essential. When major declines occur, however, they offer extraordinary opportunities to those who are not handicapped by debt. That’s the time to heed these lines from Kipling’s If: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ... If you can wait and not be tired by waiting ... If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim ... If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ... Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPointless trivia and useless fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya_Hill — Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill - the longest official place name in Australia
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ2BnFx8Ak — 7%: Behind the scenes of Tencent's Fine Art AI (揭秘腾讯人工智能“绝艺”夺冠幕后) 日本著名棋手藤泽秀行先生曾说:“棋道一百,我只知七”。 人类对棋道和世界的理解,真有 7% 吗?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe paper - Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00631.pdf — What Deep Learning Can and Can't Do?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni numbers of companies — iPhone Distilled
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://xueqiu.com/7096399426/98037618 — iPhone Distilled
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOnePlus - 4 Years of Never Settle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0ij7Mpbxw — OnePlus 5T is full of all the right ideas - hardware design, software responsiveness, and overall usability
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://research.googleblog.com/2017/12/deepvariant-highly-accurate-genomes.html — Deep Learning networks are intuition machines. These systems learn to perform inference (or make predictions) by using induction. Deep Learning systems have been able to perform tasks that are usually reserved for biological brains. Tasks that have known to be difficult for conventional computing, such as facial and speech recognition, can be performed at super human levels by these machines.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPeter Heine Nielsen on AlphaZero beating Stockfish https://www.twitch.tv/videos/207257790 — Deep Learning networks are intuition machines. These systems learn to perform inference (or make predictions) by using induction. Deep Learning systems have been able to perform tasks that are usually reserved for biological brains. Tasks that have known to be difficult for conventional computing, such as facial and speech recognition, can be performed at super human levels by these machines.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao深度学习网络就是直觉机器。深度学习网络通过归纳来进行推理或者作出预测。深度学习系统已经能够执行通常保留给生物大脑的任务了。已知对于传统计算来说难以进行的任务,例如面部和语音识别,可以由这些机器以超越人类的水平执行。 — Deep Learning networks are intuition machines. These systems learn to perform inference (or make predictions) by using induction. Deep Learning systems have been able to perform tasks that are usually reserved for biological brains. Tasks that have known to be difficult for conventional computing, such as facial and speech recognition, can be performed at super human levels by these machines.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao疯狂的 bitcoin 继 team 里的 product owner, developer 在每天讨论操作 bitcoin 后,UI designer, IM, 更多的 developers, and even IBL student 也加入了 bitcoin 的炒作大军。 — Bitcoin mania
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstation-10.html — Ergonomic workstation
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoElements of Information Theory 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Information-Theory-Telecommunications-Processing/dp/0471241954 — Relationship of information theory to other fields
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao打动用户的好产品自己会热销,不在乎卖到哪里。一加所做的一切,仅不过是努力把该做的做得更好而已。 Never Settle. — OnePlus 5T is full of all the right ideas - hardware design, software responsiveness, and overall usability
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao一加 5T 充满了所有正确的想法,设计加软件,并最终胜在整体。 — OnePlus 5T is full of all the right ideas - hardware design, software responsiveness, and overall usability
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://adventuresinmachinelearning.com/neural-networks-tutorial/ — Find word similarity based on Word2Vec and Neural Network implemented in Tensorflow
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAlphaGo Zero Explained In One Diagram https://medium.com/applied-data-science/alphago-zero-explained-in-one-diagram-365f5abf67e0 — Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReact: Rethinking best practices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY — The React Story: How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led To The Open Sourcing of ReactJS Pete Hunt interview.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGitHub Octoverse 2016 (archived) https://onepagelove.com/github-octoverse-2016 — Another amazing year, GitHub Octoverse 2017
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoArchive of Github Octoverse 2016 https://onepagelove.com/github-octoverse-2016 — GitHub Octoverse 2016 - most starred Open Source repositories on GitHub
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBigQuery and Dataproc shine in independent big data platform comparison Ref: http://tech.marksblogg.com/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/bigquery-and-dataproc-shine-in-independent-big-data-platform-comparison — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBigQuery under the hood https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/images/145392332053686/bigqueryunderthehood.png — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInside Capacitor, BigQuery’s next-generation columnar storage format https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capacitor-bigquerys-next-generation-columnar-storage-format — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets paper Dremel is the query engine used in Google's BigQuery service. https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36632.pdf — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAn Inside Look at Google BigQuery https://cloud.google.com/files/BigQueryTechnicalWP.pdf — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle Data Studio - Public Billing Report Demo https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0B7GT7ZlyzUmCZHFhNDlKVENHYmc/page/dizD — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://cloud.google.com/commercial-datasets/ — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/ — The 12 Components of Google BigQuery BigQuery carries some of the highest level of abstraction, manageability, and automation in the industry, freeing you from the tyranny of VMs and CPU/RAM sizing.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature16961.html — Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/ — Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao The International Unicorn Club https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-unicorns-international-map/ — The World’s 197 Unicorn Companies In One Infographic
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao$1B+ Market Map https://www.cbinsights.com/research/unicorn-startup-market-map/ — The World’s 197 Unicorn Companies In One Infographic
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg1dUhVI9i0 — Women who use computer science, and an ability to code, to do those cool, amazing jobs. They couldn’t do what they do without having learned not just to use technology, but to build it themselves.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJ46YA_RaA — Map of Computer Science
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/ — Map of Computer Science
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPaper http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/harley_vis_isvc15.pdf — An Interactive Node-Link Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://medium.com/@nickteulon/has-housing-un-affordability-become-a-blessing-in-disguise-285d5819c0f5 — Conversely, the stock market has historically outperformed the property market. A simple index fund over the long term will at the very least match property market returns whilst providing greater liquidity and more flexibility than a residential property with a 30 year mortgage.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score — Confusion Matrix and Diagnostic Testing
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.dataschool.io/simple-guide-to-confusion-matrix-terminology/ — Confusion Matrix and Diagnostic Testing
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUse iMac as a target display https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204592 — What your 27" iMac model, which can be used as Target Display?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCheatsheets A.I. https://github.com/kailashahirwar/cheatsheets-ai — A.I. Cheat Sheet
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe Economics of Microservices https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/05/economics-microservices
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao8 ways to lose at microservices adoption http://www.russmiles.com/essais/8-ways-to-lose-at-microservices-adoption
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoChief Justice John Roberts commencement speech transcript http://time.com/4845150/chief-justice-john-roberts-commencement-speech-transcript/ — "Now, the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you," Roberts said. "I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEvaluating Message Brokers: Kafka vs. Kinesis vs. SQS https://www.opsclarity.com/evaluating-message-brokers-kafka-vs-kinesis-vs-sqs/ — Benchmark is like driving your car as fast as possible, crashing it into a pole, and looking at the shape of the bumper afterwards ... It’s always going to look badly.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe broken promise of Web Components https://dmitriid.com/blog/2017/03/the-broken-promise-of-web-components/ — The Battle Is Over: React Won The future of UI development belongs to React and other lightweight JS frameworks like Vue.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAngular was a clear improvement over Backbone, and React was a clear step up from Angular. Understand JSX of how wonderfully simple everything becomes when you can just use JavaScript and functions instead of battling with custom templating language and it’s plugin structure. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-VueJS-being-adopted-so-slowly — The Battle Is Over: React Won The future of UI development belongs to React and other lightweight JS frameworks like Vue.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/07/googles-neural-network-chatbot-can-discuss-philosophy-and-it-troubles/ — Deep Learning - The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.slideshare.net/LuMa921/deep-learning-the-past-present-and-future-of-artificial-intelligence — Deep Learning - The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSmart KM Link software http://www.oti.com.tw/OTi%20-%20SmartKM.html — USB 3.0 cable share keyboard and mouse between Windows and Mac
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/usb-cable-USB-Smart-KM-Link_60569820560.html — USB 3.0 cable share keyboard and mouse between Windows and Mac
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni​ — MAP - Melbourne Accelerator Program by The University of Melbourne
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBeacons hardware https://kontakt.io/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS. https://twitter.com/Google/status/864915561540669441
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_series — Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood search understands a user's intent, not just what they type. http://opensourceconnections.com/services/ — Unsupervised Machine Learning for Elasticsearch
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBuild an Elasticsearch Index with Machine Learning Series https://qbox.io/blog/series/machine-learning — Unsupervised Machine Learning for Elasticsearch
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Peng Han you've found the right place :-) — I think what you asking here is why would i use smaller components like the view-only library react (probably with some event module like flux) over a full-fledged MVC framework like angular? • Small components usually do one thing very well. • There will never be a perfect framework so you can just hack the most relevant features together using npm. • Small libraries have simple documentation and they are easy to set up and use. • Any problems and there’s no waiting for the next release of the entire framework, you simply throw up an issue, the authors fix it, push it and then bam it’s on npm for everyone else and no other components have been disturbed. • If you find you don’t like the templating language or error handling, you don’t have to rethink the entire project, you just hot-swap the component for another and you’re on your way again. • By using small libraries – components with a dedicated purpose and a small surface area – it becomes possible to pick and mix, to swap parts of our front end stack out if and when they are superceded • New projects can replace only the parts that matter, whilst core functionality whose designs are settled – routing APIs, say – can stay exactly the same between the years. • You can move your legacy projects to new technologies incrementally, rather than rewriting everything, providing you stick to good practices and wrap those libraries carefully. • When different problems are answered by different libraries, their solutions can compete directly. If Framework A does X well and Y badly, compared to Framework B’s great Y and shaky X, you’re stuck. But if Library A and B both try and do X, they can compete in a direct fashion in discrete and measurable ways. https://www.quora.com/Why-would-I-use-React-over-AngularJS
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPost-MVC series start with http://dontpanic.42.nl/2016/06/post-mvc-we-need-to-talk-about-state.html — The Post-MVC Age - Component Architecture, the new way to do applications.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEnvelope the yarn at night slack month spring, Ping is svelte. 春天的夜晚,淡月笼纱,娉娉婷婷。 — The common view is that frameworks make it easier to manage the complexity of your code: the framework abstracts away all the fussy implementation details with techniques like virtual DOM diffing. But that's not really true. At best, frameworks move the complexity around, away from code that you had to write and into code you didn't. Instead, the reason that ideas like React are so wildly and deservedly successful is that they make it easier to manage the complexity of your concepts. Frameworks are primarily a tool for structuring your thoughts, not your code. Given that, what if the framework didn't actually run in the browser? What if, instead, it converted your application into pure vanilla JavaScript, just like Babel converts ES2016+ to ES5? You'd pay no upfront cost of shipping a hefty runtime, and your app would get seriously fast, because: there'd be no layers of abstraction between your app and the browser. Introducing Svelte
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Analysis can be accurate and still wrong due to timing" if you insist on "a broken clock is correct twice a day" theory. — "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" - John Maynard Keynes
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://luna.ai/ — Luna A.I. “Siri is trapped in a box. A program like that makes much slower progress on the curve to self awareness. I like Siri, and I'm not being critical of Apple... Siri is a useful tool, but ask Siri if it believes in god or who it loves. Luna will be the only one to give an honest opinion based on experience and knowledge, rather than a pre-programmed corporate policy.”
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSo you want to be a good developer? Buy some essential books. http://imgur.com/gallery/SFbsX — Buy a book, survive a meltdown Stack Overflow
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoModern data architectures for business outcomes https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/modern-data-architectures-for-business-outcomes-72687265 — AWS solution for Big Data
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSpring Integration Java DSL Reference https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-integration-java-dsl/wiki/Spring-Integration-Java-DSL-Reference — From informed source, Apache Camel edges over Spring Integration in one messaging routing and enrichment project in my area. Deano and J, you know more about these kind putting A and B together things. Do you know why Camel wins over?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell J, now I'm more leaning to Spring Integration over Apache Camel now, after more than 12 months work using Camel. Found an interesting link on Stake Overflow: 1) The effect that Spring Boot has had on developer productivity for Spring Integration 2) The effect of Spring XD has had on making Spring Integration applications available with no code compilation - also Spring XD sources and sinks are simply Spring Integration channel adapters, when you're looking to extend Spring XD. 3) The effect of Spring XD has had on making unifying Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring Data in one stack, effectively bringing batch and stream processing, HDFS/Apache Hadoop support, and much more to Spring Integration. 4) The effect of Spring Integration 4.0 Java DSL http://stackoverflow.com/a/26475264/2826211 — From informed source, Apache Camel edges over Spring Integration in one messaging routing and enrichment project in my area. Deano and J, you know more about these kind putting A and B together things. Do you know why Camel wins over?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDesign at Stanford University - A place for explorers & experimenters at Stanford University. https://dschool.stanford.edu/ — Squarespace - Build it Beautiful
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://au.pinterest.com/mklijn/bikablo-icons-en-stick-figures/ — bikablo - opens the door to the world of visual thinking and dialogue
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://twitter.com/VPoltrack — TensorFlow 1.0 announced Read more: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-tensorflow-10.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoVery droll Mr. G. Know exactly what you want to say :-D — What is the average lifespan of software or framework? That's a million dollars question.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSurviveJS - React http://survivejs.com/react/introduction/ — What's the best workflow for front end development?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIt's about passion, about the work you love :-) — What's the best workflow for front end development?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5MqxcKdV8 — Bill Morgan, the luckiest man in earth The man who died, came back to life and won the lotto twice - the second time when reenacting the first win for the media.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/23/23gigaom-beyond-hadoop-next-generation-big-data-architectu-81730.html — Question on @Quora: What is Hadoop not good for?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoStill remember the day when BHP stock hit $50 during the peak of mineral resources booming time and under rumours China is going to buy out BHP. Now BHP share price is $26. Oops ... — Those who bought in at the top are likely to remain significantly sore of the pocket.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBlackmores share price in 12 months https://plus.google.com/legacy_photo_redirect — Those who bought in at the top are likely to remain significantly sore of the pocket.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBellamy share price in 12 months https://plus.google.com/legacy_photo_redirect — Those who bought in at the top are likely to remain significantly sore of the pocket.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYou don't expect industry standard come out every month 😂 — JSON API latest specification v1.0
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMVC is dead - what comes next? part 2 http://blog.netopyr.com/2016/11/03/mvc-dead-comes-next-part-2/ — MVC is dead – what comes next?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://medium.com/intuitionmachine/11-biases-why-experts-are-missing-the-train-in-deep-learning-1c092fa9cace — Cognitive Bias Codex 2016
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18 — Cognitive Bias Codex 2016
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases — Cognitive Bias Codex 2016
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.deeplearningpatterns.com/ — Design Patterns for Deep Learning Architectures
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://octoverse.github.com/ — GitHub Octoverse 2016 - most starred Open Source repositories on GitHub
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf Computer Science were taught as course of engineering instead as science in university, you could only get coders. — Frameworks are the worst thing to happen to software development in the last decade (and possibly ever)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohaha, I think Alven Kwee is on the path to Tech Lead role sometime in Post. He is the longest served dev in his team now :-) — When big boss talks about technologies ... NAB has spent the past 14 months completely rewriting its online banking architecture, culminating in the release today of its new mobile banking app for iOS. Underneath the hood of the shiny new apps lies a new, microservices-based architecture that replaces a "monolithic" piece of bespoke code that NAB's online banking platform had run on for the past 18 years. Its new architecture is supplemented by tools like Jenkins, Netflix's Histrix and Chaos Monkey technologies, Atlassian's quality assistance, and the Axway API gateway layer ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaofrom showcase in office — Event Bus and CQRS based on AWS
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry, not public available. — Event Bus and CQRS based on AWS
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf a service only has one single reason to exist, have one single reason to change, providing a single composable piece of functionality, then business domains and responsibilities are not tangled. — One of the best guiding principles in Unix philosophy: let it do one thing, and do it well.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThere has been a lot of discussion around the true size of a Micro‐ service. What can be considered “micro”? How many lines of code can it be and still be a Microservice? These are the wrong questions. Instead, “micro” should refer to scope of responsibility, and the guiding principle here is the the Unix philosophy of Single Responsibility Principle: let it do one thing, and do it well. — One of the best guiding principles in Unix philosophy: let it do one thing, and do it well.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUp to now, the usual way to describe distributed systems has been to use a mix of technical and business buzzwords: asynchronous, non-blocking, real-time, highly-available, loosely coupled, scalable, fault-tolerant, concurrent, message-driven, push instead of pull, distributed, low latency, high throughput, etc. The Reactive Manifesto brought all these characteristics together, and it defines them through four high-level traits: Responsive, Resilient, Elastic, and Message driven. — Isolation, Single Responsibility, Autonomy, Exclusive State, Asynchronous Message-Passing and Mobility are required to build out a modern reactive microservice architecture.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more - https://toggl.com/programming-princess https://toggl.com/programming-princess — HOW TO SAVE THE PRINCESS IN 8 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Terraform and AWS ECS Transforming cloud based infrastructure provisions into code - https://prezi.com/flhqxtm-r4ys/terraform-and-aws-ecs/ — Container, the future?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoiPhone 7 released today - http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/ — Apple causes 'religious' reaction in brains of fans says neuroscientists. 'religious' reaction in brains? is that another way to say brain damage? Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/32713.pdf — API Design APIs should be easy to use and hard to misuse. It should be easy to do simple things; possible to do complex things; and impossible, or at least difficult, to do wrong things. APIs can be among your greatest assets or liabilities. Good APIs create long-term customers; bad ones create long-term support nightmares. - Joshua Bloch
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design — API Design APIs should be easy to use and hard to misuse. It should be easy to do simple things; possible to do complex things; and impossible, or at least difficult, to do wrong things. APIs can be among your greatest assets or liabilities. Good APIs create long-term customers; bad ones create long-term support nightmares. - Joshua Bloch
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more https://delimiter.com.au/2016/08/23/australia-post-plans-blockchain-based-e-voting-system/ — Australia Post's search for relevance "The blockchain works without third parties, administrators or any kind of key management, Account holders generate their own key pairs and jump into the network without any registration. No one needs to know who they are or what they are. No account holder, no node, no miner and no client needs to be trusted.” To take Bitcoin as the obvious example: most of its elaborate architecture is that it has to operate without users trusting each other. In an election, trust is necessary – either trust in the one-person-one-vote principle that electoral registration guarantees, or one-person-one-key in an electronic system.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRedux has the highest GitHub stars per line of code of all time. — Redux without the sanity checks in a single file.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReactJS's declarative views with a straightforward and elegant architecture that brings some of the best ideas of software engineering theory - Immutable Global State, Functional Programming, Event Sourcing, CQRS, etc. into the web development mainstream. — ReactJS, React Native and Relay, this looks likely a right programming model for JS based web applications.  Learn how to use JavaScript libraries and techniques to help engineers develop great mobile experiences ever more efficiently.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://blog.wolksoftware.com/the-rise-of-functional-programming-and-the-death-of-angularjs — I think Angular 2 has jumped the shark. I can just see +James Gemmell shaking his fist at this :p +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttps://medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558#.qdsl37axx — I think Angular 2 has jumped the shark. I can just see +James Gemmell shaking his fist at this :p +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoJMH is a Java harness for building, running, and analysing nano/micro/milli/macro benchmarks written in Java and other languages targetting the JVM -http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/ — Collection.toArray(new T[0]) or Collection.toArray(new T[size]), that's the question.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonReact without predicable state container Redux is like drive a supercar without a brake. — I think Angular 2 has jumped the shark. I can just see +James Gemmell shaking his fist at this :p +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI had been to NG meet-up on Thursday night. I can only say Angular 2 has caused more confusion and upset in developers world. Basically it's wrong in abstraction and programming model. You only need View in presentation layer. MVC model in NG just too overkilled. JavaScript still the king for presentation layer. Now I'm barracking for ReactJS. — I think Angular 2 has jumped the shark. I can just see +James Gemmell shaking his fist at this :p +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI attended NG last night — I think Angular 2 has jumped the shark. I can just see +James Gemmell shaking his fist at this :p +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI've lost myself ... — Introduce elm - the best of functional programming in your browser Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNot surprised. I keep receiving SMS with PIN to open Parcel Locker box actually I don't have a parcel at all. — Someone broke the template. +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni no, I mean simple in IT is hard, but can be powerful — Simple can be powerful.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MoHS_GK4dM — Europe separator named as newly Britain's Foreign Secretary.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell​ — Europe separator named as newly Britain's Foreign Secretary.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSteam API in Java 8 is like saying "we salute you SQL". — Design Patterns in one picture
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA lot of the GoF design patterns stem from a time when EVERYTHING needed to be an object. Object orientation was the new holy grail, and people even wanted to push objects down into databases. Object databases were invented (luckily, they’re all dead) and the SQL standard was enhanced with ORDBMS features. Since Java 8, finally, starting to recover from the damage that was made in early days of object orientation in the 90s, and can move back to a more data-centric, functional, immutable programming model where data processing languages like SQL are appreciated rather than avoided. https://dzone.com/articles/how-functional-programming-will-finally-do-away-wi — Design Patterns in one picture
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBest explanation of why using nulls in your domain model is wrong. — "Absence of a signal should never be used as a signal" - J.Bigelow 1947
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInsurance companies are not silly. — Tsunami of Property Investment
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGet text from images!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.slideshare.net/mariofusco/from-object-oriented-to-functional-domain-modeling — OOP vs. FP OOP makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts; FP makes code understandable by minimising moving parts. - Michael Feathers
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFound in someone's presentation on slideshare — OOP vs. FP OOP makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts; FP makes code understandable by minimising moving parts. - Michael Feathers
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFat chance. — WOW! This would be great news!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBetter to say Future in Java 8 is non-blocking unless you call get(). Avoid get(), instead use thenAcceptAsync() / thenRunAsync() methods run in a different thread from the thread pool. — Difference between Future and Promise (a.k.a. CompletableFuture) in Java 8 You can make a Promise and it's up to you to keep it. When someone else makes you a Promise you must wait to see if they honour it in the Future.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSomeone says Laziness makes it easy to compose programes as we don't do more work than essential. Some other says while being lazy and procrastinating could make you wildly successful and go further in life. ?! — Immutability is the foundation to Laziness
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Commented on post by Dean BuddOptional, Stream and CompletableFuture classes in Java 8 are already Monad. Programming Monadic Java. — if you use side effect free functional programming your problems are going to be limited to the execution path of just the function
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.bluecoat.com/products-and-solutions/on-premise-web-security — How SSL Handshake vs. SSL Interception (man-in-the-middle) Proxy
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShall we re-schedule this drinking after Deano has settled down in new business? — Friday is last day for Deano in Post. He is going to start and run his business. We wish him all the best in his new adventure. Please forward this invitation to someone you'd like join us.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGood lucks to those who bought at the peak. — Too late.  This sucker's already expanded waaaaaayyyy too much.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe property boom is over. — Too late.  This sucker's already expanded waaaaaayyyy too much.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood you have this if you have multiple browser's tabs for monitoring. — Can Mac do this? Rotate each Chrome tab every 5 seconds while(1 -eq 1){ $wshell=New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.AppActivate('Google Chrome'); Sleep 5; $wshell.SendKeys('^{PGDN}'); } in Power Shell.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Try very hard in your life never do JavaScript" - one of best rants on Javascript at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Lq3rdGbSg&t=1h16m58s — IntelliJ IDEA tips and tricks that will make you a more efficient and productive developer https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/10/intellij-idea-tips-and-tricks/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInside companies like Google and Facebook, deep learning is proving remarkably adept at recognizing images and grasping spacial patterns—a skill well suited to Go. http://www.wired.com/2015/12/google-and-facebook-race-to-solve-the-ancient-game-of-go/ — Facebook’s Go program combines two fairly new computational technologies: deep convolutional neural networks, which use vaguely brain-like algorithms to learn and recognize the importance of large-scale patterns on the game board, and Monte Carlo tree search, which is a form of “thinking ahead” that works out detailed tactical sequences of combat in specific areas.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoProspects through the eyes of our most honest forecaster – the Reserve Bank Australia (RBA). Unlike everyone else in the forecasting game, the RBA spells out just how unreliable its forecasts are with the "confidence intervals" that accompany its quarterly statement on monetary policy forecast. — Hilarious readings of Almanac of Australian Financial in year 2015
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOnly thing interesting is in http://netflix.github.io/ — "But the project ultimately fell over thanks to a lack of momentum and technical issues." Bet they tried to run it all on bloated middleware and wondered why it all fell over :p
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTwenty years old Java carries on. For Deano +Dean Budd — Javaslang - http://javaslang.com
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson People still stick with Maven are those who don't realise how powerful and big sea change Gradle (build framework can be programmable) has brought in. +Dean Budd Agree with a lot RoR and NG developers lack of fundamental programming knowledges. AngularJS is a WRONG programming mode. Over-complicated design, over-engineered, over-bloated. Ignore mobile devices lack of network bandwidth, CPU power and battery juice. Try ReactJS. Still can't get rid of Cucumber. Have tried to persuade developers switch to Spock/Geb testing for Spring/Java apps. — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonPlaying Spring Boot with Docker soon - https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot-docker/ Another task for me during holiday solution to run BDD / Cucumber test in parallel. Can Cucumber + Clojure have this feature? https://github.com/MyPost/cupickle — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd Some Spring Boot Java 'microservices' are NOT good examples you read. Too much Annotation-mania, too little fundamental how to write Spring Boot starter. Read authentic Spring code - https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-starters   — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI've played a bit Clojure, Cursive plugin, Leinington build framework during holiday break, trying to understand how to build up ecosystem around Clojure. Clojure, technically speaking, is a simple, concise, easy to learn computer language. Question is how many companies, how big the community could adapt it? Meanwhile, Java and Spring are also evolving. Some Scala developers reckon some functional language features in Java 8 are better than Scala itself. Except Stream API in Java 8 itself, there are 3rd projects are working on improve functional programming in Java 8, like http://javaslang.com/ Spring has recognised the effect of Ruby on Rail and Groovy on Grail  - RAD (Rapid Application Development) so it tries to solve the same puzzle with Spring Boot and get rid of container concept with Uber Jar and Jetty/Tomcat is part of your application.  K made a good point of JVM. If Scala and Clojure have to run on JVM, hardly to see Java will go away soon. — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd Safe to be a passionate conservative when drive in year 2016! Hahaha — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTry contributing if you don't like it. — Just for you +Dean Budd LOL.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOO for people can't think in abstraction. FP for people without imagination. Each computer language is designed for partially mental dysfunction people. — "A good functional language is one that allows for convenient polymorphism. Clojure is a good example." - It would be interesting to see how Clojure achieves that. OO vs FP by Uncle Bob.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonFuck, this article is still fresh and awesome after read again one year later! — "A good functional language is one that allows for convenient polymorphism. Clojure is a good example." - It would be interesting to see how Clojure achieves that. OO vs FP by Uncle Bob.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMore roads, more cars on the roads, more consuming, more VicRoad revenue, more car related incidents, more insurances, more law cases, more prosecutors, more pollies ... Building more roads actually helps frigging doomed economy. — So my local fed MP has sent out his latest FIGJAM propaganda. What caught my eye was the mere mention of PT, from a guy who has never mentioned it as a priority before. He still has an immature obsession with the East West Link, but I think his boss has different plans.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCQRS pattern could be very valuable in situations when you have highly collaborative data and large, multi-user systems, complex, include ever-changing business rules, and delivers a significant competitive advantage of business. It can be very helpful when you need to track and log historical changes. With CQRS you can achieve great read and write performance. The system intrinsically supports scaling out. By separating read and write operations, each can be optimized. CQRS can by very helpful when you have difficult business logic. CQRS forces you to not mix domain logic and infrastructural operations. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/555855/Introduction-to-CQRS — Command Query Responsibility Segregation pattern
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Commented on post by Michael Polonihttp://cplonline.com.au/cables/usb-cable/belkin-f2cu029bt1m-blk-usb-3-1-usb-c-to-usb-a-3-1-cable.html Cable length can't beyond over 1 meter by USB 3.1 standard — I bought a new gadget last week: a +Google Nexus 5x. As a bonus, it came with a free Chromecast. The Nexus 5x is only my second Android phone, and there's plenty to like. My main disappointments are to do with the hardware and the price - it's significantly more expensive than my Nexus 4 but lacks some of the higher-end hardware features I really wanted such as optical image stabilisation. I was surprised to see that even the new Nexus 6p doesn't have a camera with optical stabilisation. Alas, now I must wait for a new sim card, as the micro-sim from my N4 is no good for the nano-sim designed N5x. With TPG in the middle of a migration from the Optus network to Vodafone, I'm stuck waiting an indefinite time, with thousands of customers in the queue for new sim cards. A big selling point for me in choosing the N5x over the Samsung S6 was the new 'imprint' fingerprint reader to unlock the phone. Can I say that 'imprint' is every bit as good as all the reviewers claim?! I'm really liking this bit of hardware, and the design of it on the back of the phone. The idea is that you can easily unlock the phone as you grab it out of your pocket, and eventually use it for authorisations such as payments. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable authorising payments, because fingerprints can be forged from such things as smudge marks. Imprint unlocks the phone quite quickly, and makes me wonder how I ever put up with the regularity of punching in a code on the screen to unlock my N4. Two other big reasons for my choice of phone: Firstly to get access to Android Marshmellow's feature of selectable permissions for apps. Secondly to have a phone with 4G capability, across all the frequency bands used in Australia (this is important, as my old N4 will be quite limited with my telco's move from Optus to Vodafone). There's also the issue of the fixed battery in my old N4 starting to show its age, which when added to all the other issues does affect the efficiency of using the phone for work purposes. Things to like about the N5x and Android Marshmellow that I've discovered so far: * 'Imprint' fingerprint recognition * Permissions for apps can be individually enabled and disabled * Feels sturdy and light-weight * Plastic back has a similar grip and feel to the Diztronic case I've been happy with on my N4 * Overall dimensions only marginally taller than my N4 but noticeably thinner * Fast charging (if you have the right cables!) * Picking up the phone turns on the screen, in grey low-power mode, to show the time and important notifications without needing to push a button Things to dislike about the experience: * The migration assistant gives you the ability to "copy across" apps, settings and user data from your old phone. In practice this is very limited, as it doesn't appear to copy any locally stored data (instead relying on it having been stored in the cloud) and doesn't keep many of the configurations. For example, I was dissapointed to find I needed to recreate all the icons and widgets on my homescreens. * Similarly, not all of the apps installed on my N4 were installed on my N5x! The first one I found missing was LinkedIn. Upon deeper investigation, there appears to be a discrepancy between what the 'Play' app says is installed on my N4 and what 'Play' says is when I use it via a web browser on my PC (the latter was missing those apps). * The ringtones I was using on my N4 are not provided * The 'Power control' widget seems to be no more (I'm now trying out 'Power Toggles' https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc which is extensively configurable and looks the goods) * USB Type-C. Ok, longer-term this is a much better standard, however it means I now need new cables and a type-c-to-type-a converter for my PCs. Proper Type-C cables aren't cheap - don't be fooled by the eBay cheapies! http://ausdroid.net/2015/11/01/google-engineer-explains-why-you-cant-use-most-usb-a-to-usb-c-cable-to-charge-at-3a/ * The supplied USB type-c charger fits quite tightly to the N5x. I hope that's just because it's new, because pulling it off the charger is painful (literally) with my one-arm capability at the moment! * Supplied USB charger cables are getting shorter and shorter with each new model. The N5x charger cable is just under 1m which for me is just that bit too short for my desk. For comparison, my N10 charger was 1.5m, my N4 1.2m and the N5's was 1.1m. And given the changeover to Type-C, I can't simply make up the lost length with any of the spare USB extension cables I have. I was concerned, when buying the phone, about the protuding camera housing on the back. Would this make it difficult to use the phone when it's lying flat on a table? Answer - no. Despite the lump, the phone still sits steadily whether swyping in portrait or landscape mode. And what about the Chromecast? It's quite a simple little bit of hardware that is very easy to use. I made use of the Google Play free bonus movie rental last night, streaming 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron' in HD from my new N5x. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get working and how smooth the streaming is. Even on my crappy ADSL2+ connection it never lagged, with the movie starting up promptly within 5 or 6 seconds and never stuttering. The picture quality was perfect, without any artefacts. I was also surprised to see very little battery use on my phone from a couple of hours streaming. The Chromecast app will happily continue streaming in the background, allowing you to multitask on the phone. I'm not sure of the limits, however, having not tested this by running other intensive apps or even a phonecall. Am I happy? Yes, so far so good. Now if only I could start using the N5x as my phone! For now, I'm left waiting for TPG to find me in the queue and send me my new sim card. #Android #Nexus5x
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAdapt Akka. Event driven. Async communication. — Where is your service's boundary?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd​ I really don't understand your world now. Are you playing games all day for living? :-D — Understand the difference between annotations @Resource, @Inject, @Autowired, @Qualifier ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMicroservices are now so passé ... — Where is your service's boundary?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson​ from informed source. Actually, it comes from some post I read. — "If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write JavaScript programs". The vicious attack on JavaScript so far.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttps://www.facebook.com/Engineering/videos/10153621562717200/ — First, you need to understand how to play Go ... ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://jlongster.com/First-Impressions-using-React-Native — Learn once, write everywhere.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Maggie Xu I'm OK. Still with AusPost. Are you on WeChat? my id is "terrence-miao". Cheers — Chengdu (成都) 2015
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat we need is not just another programming language but a conceptual universe for thinking about software development. — A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. -- Alan Perlis
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.wired.com/2015/11/facebook-is-aiming-its-ai-at-go-the-game-no-computer-can-crack — First, you need to understand how to play Go ... ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHard reset, and stash. There is no need to delete the project. — http://xkcd.com/1597/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEverything you have said today wound be archived and let me chase you guys later :-P — Everyone is always looking for something new. There’s a wealth of information being overlooked. This is very dangerous. IT doesn’t have a historical base - this is a problem for all of these new languages. People are trying to create a new language rather than solve a problem. There’s a lot of wasted effort.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAfter 5 years, I will come back to this record to see which language in your judgement right now is still alive, which has died. — Everyone is always looking for something new. There’s a wealth of information being overlooked. This is very dangerous. IT doesn’t have a historical base - this is a problem for all of these new languages. People are trying to create a new language rather than solve a problem. There’s a lot of wasted effort.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonANZ Banking Group has raised interest rates by 0.18 percentage points — The bank said its decision was a response to "market conditions", - Bank speak for "If everyone else is putting up their rates so are we". I think the Banks are playing the victim card and forgetting they got themselves into this mess by lending out money they shouldn't have.  While raising rates is a necessary evil there should be some pain felt by those who made the wrong decisions to begin with.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+James Gemmell Have watched from start to end. Mind boggling stuff. Will forward it to Post devs and ops. Cheers
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCBA 0.15% today. A great day. As a big shareholder of all big four, I'm delightful seeing terrible pain taken to those who borrow heavily. — It starts.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+James Gemmell​ use Docker
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonKeep it private, private, private ... ... — Should I be concerned that "one man bands" are being held up as the goal?  Whatever happened to the team being the most important unit; which leads to sustainable quality outcomes?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAndroid major release is definitely not like iOS. You have to wait for next 10 patches and bug-fix release to get your hot iPhone cooled down and stabilised. 😁😂😀 — Hmmmm, Android Marshmallow ... ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAlways work your story on a git branch. No merge conflicts until merge.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoData fusion has no relationship with Oracle SOA fusion. — Data Fusion - breaking down the barriers to real-time data analysis The rise of many easy-to-use, inexpensive, and open-source streaming-data platform components: Apache Storm, a Hadoop compatible add-on (developed by Twitter) for rapid data transformation, has been implemented by The Weather Channel, Spotify, WebMD, and Alibaba.com. Apache Spark, a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing, supports SQL, machine learning, and streaming-data analysis. Apache Kafka, an open-source message broker, is widely used for consumption of streaming data. Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed, cloud-based service for real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams, can continuously capture large volumes of data from streaming sources.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoData fusion means embedded analytics capabilities must make multiple data sources appear as one. Businesses shouldn’t have to distinguish between “Big Data” versus other forms of data. There’s just data, period including non-streaming and static data. — Data Fusion - breaking down the barriers to real-time data analysis The rise of many easy-to-use, inexpensive, and open-source streaming-data platform components: Apache Storm, a Hadoop compatible add-on (developed by Twitter) for rapid data transformation, has been implemented by The Weather Channel, Spotify, WebMD, and Alibaba.com. Apache Spark, a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing, supports SQL, machine learning, and streaming-data analysis. Apache Kafka, an open-source message broker, is widely used for consumption of streaming data. Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed, cloud-based service for real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams, can continuously capture large volumes of data from streaming sources.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIn a Reactive System, Elastic meaning system can scale up and down with demand; Resilient against failures that are inevitable in large distributed systems; Responsive to service requests even if failures limit the ability to deliver services; and Driven by Events from the world around them. — Forget Agile Manifesto, which distorted by the peanut-size-brain industry "gurus". Build Reactive Systems based on four principles: Responsive, Resilient, Elastic and Message Driven. Read more - http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more - http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jsoncstyleguide.xml
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyIf you could know one thing about betting hat trick on Hawks' premiership, not just watching the games in the stand, you will be happier Bryan than you are now. — Another year, another grand final. Go Hawks !!!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Time to re-write your mobile apps in JavaScript? — React Native brings what developers are used to from React on the web — declarative self-contained UI components and fast development cycles — to the mobile platform, while retaining the speed, fidelity, and feel of native applications. Code more: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/
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Commented on post by Dean Budd"LISP isn't a language, it's a building material." — Alan Kay — 1. Everything is a list and the first element is a function. 2. You now know LISP.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Comments please ... ... — “If you can't build a well-structured monolith, what makes you think microservices are the answer?” Read more: https://www.opencredo.com/2014/11/19/7-deadly-sins-of-microservices/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more - http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/8/26/technology/nbn-blowout-and-blame-game — Following Kevin Rudd’s axing as PM in 2010 Tony Abbott said “A prime minister elected by the people has been executed by the union and the factional warlords ... Prime ministers should not be treated this way.” Julia Gillard replaced Rudd as PM in 2010. On her knifing in 2013, Tony Abbott said: “Yet again, the powerbrokers of the Labor Party have changed the prime ministership of our country. I want to say directly to the people of Australia: you deserve better than this.” Tony Abbott will be remembered as an extremely conservative Prime Minister in modem age, an energetic lead, an ass kicker, a boxer, a mad monk ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaofunction fish_prompt     set_color yellow; echo -n $USER; set_color normal; echo -n "@"; set_color green; echo -n (hostname -s)" "; set_color red; echo (pwd)     set_color normal; echo -n (date "+%H:%M:%S "); set_color cyan; echo "𝜆 " end — Fish Shell, a command line shell for  the 90s Autosuggestions, integrated with git branch ... ... Read more - http://fishshell.com/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBig and shitty mouth opened again. — Well if the Chinese Central Bank says its OK, time to pull out the money from under the mattress and buy, baby buy^^ I'd be more scared because the debt stack hasn't unwound.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonJust read the article. Oh dear, I reckon some Chinese have made a wrong public image - having shit lot of money, and no respect to the community. — The burning question I have is of you can trust the Real Estates stats on the subject. Show me the tax records then I'm more likely to believe you ;)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy​ Fabio Fognini produced a stunning comeback win 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4over Rafael Nadallaced with 70 winners in US Open. Well scoreboard says everything. Roger Federer is still in the tournament :-D — You still can't beat great Roger Federer even equipped with a smart racquet.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIn food court now
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOn my way. Tram is slow.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonFriday lunch tomorrow? — The burning question I have is of you can trust the Real Estates stats on the subject. Show me the tax records then I'm more likely to believe you ;)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCan I have your contact number? — The burning question I have is of you can trust the Real Estates stats on the subject. Show me the tax records then I'm more likely to believe you ;)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOk — The burning question I have is of you can trust the Real Estates stats on the subject. Show me the tax records then I'm more likely to believe you ;)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCan you call me? I don't have your number. Cheers — The burning question I have is of you can trust the Real Estates stats on the subject. Show me the tax records then I'm more likely to believe you ;)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd​ except IBM parts — API Gateway solves client side fragility issues like security, monitoring, data caching, load balancing and versioning.  Service discovery is the key component in microservice's distributed system picture.  It becomes especially critical as more services deployed, and service location change quite frequently due to scaling in a live system, as well as hosts failing and being replaced. Message queue reduces the coupling when one microservice needs to interconnect another microservice directly, makes one microservice have less degree of direct knowledge that one possible. Read more: http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/02/04/service-discovery-in-the-cloud/ http://ryanjbaxter.com/2015/07/22/using-microservices-to-build-cloud-native-applications-part-2/     
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell​ what is your comments on computer education? except your judgement we are not fully but half arsed :-) — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI will call us the lucky generation. We are the survivors of the last ever proper education system. Learned C, Pascal, Basic, Ada, Fortran, Smalltalk ... ... programmed on mainframes like Honeywell, PDP-11, VAX-785, and IBM PC XT, Apple II ... ... — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHardly I could believe it ... ... — Vert.x is a framework for the next generation of asynchronous, scalable, concurrent applications, which aims to provide an alternative to Node.js for the JVM.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonScott Pape is one of my favourite financial journalist. I read his every his article published. Down to earth attitude, non-bullshit statements, bravely telling the truth. I've learned a lot from him. — This article is behind a paywall.  To get around it, google "herald sun faults in the vault" and then use the first result. As a long time reader of Pape's work, I appreciate his ability to (being a country boy too) relate to the more blue collar sections of our society and make fancy financial concepts easy to understand.  That and his willingness to publicly shove it to the Financial Sector by advising people on prudent money management. However I'm disappointed in this constant down talk of gold (Pape is a Buffet fan boi).  The article's subtext is that if you don't believe in fiat currency you're a crank, a kook, nuts. Never mind that the US stock market is filled with borrowed money due to ZIRP, that the US and China are hitting liquidity crunches because everyone's leveraged to the hilt but there's no actual economic growth (just corporations doing share buybacks with borrowed money).  Never mind that when it unwinds people are going to have to sell assets (at any price) to pay back their debts, etc.  It's like we've hit the top of the stack for recursive function calls; it's got to unwind or the machine crashes. I think you are a bit naive if you've thrown all your money into gold (or PMs) because of central banks desire to suppress the price (for whatever agenda).  So keeping some liquidity for productive assets is a good idea.  Or just sitting in cash for the inevitable fire sale. Ray Dalio, America's largest hedge fund manager with $150 Billion USD under management has been quoted ~1 month ago as saying "If you don't own gold, there's no sensible reason other than you don't know history, or you don't know the economics of it"
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Back to Uni I will study math. Programming skills can be learned at any age. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-impact-of-mathematics-in-computer-science — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Physics and math won't teach you TDD or DDD, but both of them build you a good foundation of analytic thinking and more important distinguish inference skill. So many PhD graduate who study physics or math in Ivy League schools but can't find job then have to switch to I.T. in companies in Silicon Valley. To them, programming and Java are like arithmetic book in junior school to them. They can easily learn, master and flourish. It's not because they are talent, but because the basic problem solving skills fostering during their uni study. — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd University should NOT have computer science subject for undergraduate study I reckon in current education system. Uni students should learn physics or mathematics during the first few years to get a bachelor degree at first. Then they could pickup computer subjects during postgraduate study. I have seen so many good developers are physics and mathematics even music degree background. And have seen so many IT "workers" learn computer knowledge after graduate from TAFE in two years, or move up by playing minesweeper. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Now you can see why a lot resources have been allocated in shit cleaning than creative work. — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI'm currently implementing Lambda and Stream API in Java 8 in my current project. The code become easier to read and concise than old Java style. Can understand why +Dean Budd and +Bryan Murphy being die-hard supports of functional programming. Wish I could write this Java app in whole functional fashion. BTW, I don't believe Java will be disappeared soon from enterprise app and Android development. Every computer language needs an ecosystem for its a long term sustainable growth or survive. This is from the economists view, not computer scientists because computer geeks think they could live without oxygen. JavaScript has the potentials to become a full stack programming language, but long way it could overturn the domination Java in enterprise unless JS could make breakthrough in integration solutions.  Anyway I'd better stop ranting and insulting for now in case starting another language war ... ... — The highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson  — Start another war between Grunt vs. Gulp
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson-1.68% Shanghai Compost Index today. Chinese gov still believe having more powerful iron grip on the market than the invisible hand? — "In an extraordinary weekend of policy moves, brokerages and fund managers vowed to buy massive amounts of stocks, helped by China's state-backed margin finance company which in turn would be aided by a direct line of liquidity from the central bank." (emphasis added). FFS haven't we learned from the quagmire the US is in (where they really don't want to turn off the dope cash tap).  Let's print a wad of cash so that we can introduce artificial price floors into the market.  Cause that's going to work out so well, as well as totally breaking any form of price discovery in the market.  I would rather go to a Chinese Casino than play their market.  I'd have better odds.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe platform, SDK ... Google designed for Android development is the fault, making you feel like develop in Java Swing. Not the programming language picked Java. Never heard someone says this language makes less bad code. Developers are human. They can make progress, as well as make shit meantime ... — I'm starting to think Google made a really bad mistake picking Java for Android. I just fixed a bug in a vendors code that is a clear Liskov Pattern violation. Spotted it instantly, refactored the code and the bug went away. The vendor had spent days trying to fix it. We wouldn't have this problem if there were no member variables. Functions all the way!!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Where are your apps now in this picture? — Kubernetes over Mesos architecture
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoJavaScript, and its cousin Node.js, maybe the best candidate for microservice, API first architecture in appropriate word. — JavaScript, maybe the first ever full stack programming language, offering full stack, end-to-end solution.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell The core Spark component are written in simply 63 Scala files. Your Scala knowledge finally finds a niche for the first time ...  Hahaha — Spark Community Update - Spark Summit San Francisco 2015 Read more: http://www.slideshare.net/databricks/spark-community-update-spark-summit-san-francisco-2015
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao有钱没文化的买iPhone,没钱有文化的买Android,没钱没文化的买Windows Phone,有钱有文化的 …… 那你一定是见到鬼了。 — You are what you buy Be a Mac person ... ...
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWe are going to move to Cloud anyway. — In an attempt to upgrade my primary desktop PC without spending any money, I've now wasted 10+ hours of my time due to a faulty motherboard.  #gripe  
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniThinkCentre M93p Tiny - http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/desktops/thinkcentre/tinys/m93-m93p-tiny/ DIY PC is a time of past.  — In an attempt to upgrade my primary desktop PC without spending any money, I've now wasted 10+ hours of my time due to a faulty motherboard.  #gripe  
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGov fix. — "In an extraordinary weekend of policy moves, brokerages and fund managers vowed to buy massive amounts of stocks, helped by China's state-backed margin finance company which in turn would be aided by a direct line of liquidity from the central bank." (emphasis added). FFS haven't we learned from the quagmire the US is in (where they really don't want to turn off the dope cash tap).  Let's print a wad of cash so that we can introduce artificial price floors into the market.  Cause that's going to work out so well, as well as totally breaking any form of price discovery in the market.  I would rather go to a Chinese Casino than play their market.  I'd have better odds.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd​ Deano, it's the time to rethink JavaScript, non-blocked I/O, non-JVM, and really really fast ... skipped 10,000 words explain more to you here. Medical research has shown evidence that long-terms functional programming leads to the damage of body and low birth weight of infants ... :-) — JavaScript is not a great language to start with, but it is a great idea: to have a programming language serves for the browser.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoVery droll Minister, very droll ... ... — Knowledge only means complicity in guilt; ignorance has a certain dignity. - Sir Humphrey Appleby
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLooking forward JavaScript could be adopted as the programming language of large enterprises; looking forward JavaScript could become the backbone of integration layer, and the solution for building microservices in enterprise level.  — JavaScript is not a great language to start with, but it is a great idea: to have a programming language serves for the browser.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAt wrong place, asked a wrong question, to the wrong people. — Well I just got slaughtered. My Federal MP organised his Deakin Community Forum and the average age of the attendees was retiree.  There was literally a handful of people that didn't have grey hair, including the Minister. So after enduring 45 minutes of BS presentation where he spun everything from the economy to security to show how wonderful the government is, I asked my question about East West Link. I was accused of reading (I had written my question on my phone) a Green's press release, which immediately denigrated my question in the eyes of the audience (to the average Liberal voter a Greens supporter is at best mad, and at worst evil).  I had a word to a staffer about that, we'll see if I get an apology. Most other questions was about wealth creation, and why was the government reducing the eligibility for the part pension.  I try to not stereotype the older generations but these looked like an angry selfish bunch of oldies. A guy did come up to me afterwards and tried to convince me that I was wrong on EWLink.  We had a positive discussion as I was able to provide real solutions to his questions, but I could see his cognitive bias kick in in places.  I hope that I may have made a slight dent in his point of view, but doubtful.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBig wisdom.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI did this morning — Anyone had issues upgrading to Android 5.1.1? +Terrence Miao​?
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Commented on post by Casper CasperRun your code without a dedicated DevOps team managing infrastructure, and scale by parallelising infinitely. This is frigging awesome! — The future of microservices? http://lg.io/2015/05/16/the-future-is-now-and-its-using-aws-lambda.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWaste bullets. RBA runs our of ideas how to help economy. — The gall of this guy. "But Mr Hockey has warned superannuants they face "potentially many years" of lower returns because of lower rates." That's because the land of Oz has joined the rest of the developed world with real interest rates of 0% (assuming inflation is 2% which I'm not sure of).  How's that panned out for the US, Europe and Japan Joe?  I feel for those on fixed incomes.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOh come on guys! The steak is always tasted juicy on this side of city. You have already known that the birds won't bother making a dropping over bankers heads even when they fly over Dockland. — European Bier Cafe, steak, beer and the world is half-arsed news ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShould work. Only require skin contact, firmly. — Mio Fuse un-boxing
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWow, Erase ... Like press a button and make a bomb explore ... ... — Google knows where your lost phone is ... Check https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager?u=0
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBig Data mining! Finally found some useful info rather than junkies. — OMG, have you seen what Google is doing? Notifying me the upcoming household bills directly to Google Now on my smartphone. Reminding me not miss a bill at right time, at right moment. Wow ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"When GPS is not available gyroscopes provide orientation, accelerometers provide position and oscillators provide timing. The new C-SCAN effort focuses on replacing bulky gyroscopes with a new inertial measurement unit (IMU) that is smaller, less expensive due to foundry fabrication and yields better performance." http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/04/16.aspx — Nuclear-powered GPS trackers Don’t worry, the nuclear material is for determining velocity, not powering anything or exploding. The military has trouble directing vehicles and missiles in areas where GPS signals might be blocked or scrambled, like when submarines are underwater. Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator (C-SCAN) is very technical, but it would allow precise navigation without a GPS signal by precisely measuring atoms from nuclear decay. Read more: http://www.wearethemighty.com/weird-darpa-projects-2015-04 http://gpsworld.com/ http://mems.eng.uci.edu/research/chip-scale-combinatorial-atomic-navigator-cscan/ http://mems.eng.uci.edu/files/2013/09/GPS0813_ExpAdv_Shkel_v3.pdf
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson More stable than previous release, the JS animation  out of control thing no more, though still feel sluggish sometime. Overall is good. I like this release. — Upgrade to Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 , manually Can't wait for latest Android upgrade OTA so have to DIY and in a few manual steps. Previous version 5.0.1 seems having stability issues - animation out of control after using for a while; the system response become slower and slower every day after consequent heavy usage. Now I cultivate a new habit rebooting my Nexus 5 every week. Can't stand this anymore so I'm eager to upgrade a more stable and reliable Nexus major upgrade soon after it's released this week.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIf TS is good enough, you don't need to TS compiler. If TS is good enough, there will be a V8 turbo charged engine for TS, and JS becomes obsolete. — "The result of TypeScript’s compilation is of course JavaScript. The most obvious difference between the TypeScript code and the generated code is that the types have been removed—they are used during the compilation phase only. You can think of it as another test that runs at build time to verify that all the function calls are valid."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSpring Book, Docker, TypeScript 1.4 support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — New toys!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttps://medium.com/@rotxed/dex-skys-the-limit-no-65k-methods-is-28e6cb40cf71 — Java buddies! What's a good tool for analysing JAR files in terms of number of classes, methods, packages, etc. I've recently hit the Android 65K method limit, and I want to find the recently added dependency culprit ;) +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao +James Gemmell +Martin Paulo +Glen Appleby 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd The only app secure team allow to go ahead is ended with .http://auspost.com.au Hahaha. — All mighty Post security team has rejected, or fucked off in other words, the request from development team using an internal or external SEO solution based on Prerender.io. Post's new cutting edge web apps developed in "cool" NG, and which require SEO currently all fucked up.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBack to business. Still not fully convinced that NG could deliver an omni solution for front-end development. How about mobile devices? Not everyone has a Mac, but everyone has a smartphone today. How NG could beat the performance of naive apps on mobile? In addition, there are ReactJS, MeteorJS, Isomorphic JS framework, the newly come-out guys which offer end-to-end solution in a federated language, in current chaotic JS world. Who will win. Don't know. But it's good for developers have different options than only one toy to play with ... ... — "The result of TypeScript’s compilation is of course JavaScript. The most obvious difference between the TypeScript code and the generated code is that the types have been removed—they are used during the compilation phase only. You can think of it as another test that runs at build time to verify that all the function calls are valid."
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd​ I agree with you there is a risk becoming the first one sits on the cutting technology edge, the cut his own balls off ... NG 1.3 release has pissed off a lot developers. Like Post home mobile site, developed in NG 1.2. So much change have to make to upgrade it to work with NG 1.3. It will be the same story for 2.0 release. There are so many noises in IT market confusing a lot less experienced developers. But it's our duty to point out the correct direction, no matter it's M$ and Google not change but fuck up the world. — "The result of TypeScript’s compilation is of course JavaScript. The most obvious difference between the TypeScript code and the generated code is that the types have been removed—they are used during the compilation phase only. You can think of it as another test that runs at build time to verify that all the function calls are valid."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHave you seen http://www.wix.com? That's how exactly a modularised front end application look  like! — "The result of TypeScript’s compilation is of course JavaScript. The most obvious difference between the TypeScript code and the generated code is that the types have been removed—they are used during the compilation phase only. You can think of it as another test that runs at build time to verify that all the function calls are valid."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonJavaScript to TypeScript is like bytecode to Java. JavaScript world needs this kind caffeine to make a programming language vivid. Pro TypeScript: • "Strong" type and type SAFETY • Java language like Class, Inheritance, Generics and Annotation; meanwhile keep functional programming and closure features around • Ecosystem backed by Microsoft and Google — "The result of TypeScript’s compilation is of course JavaScript. The most obvious difference between the TypeScript code and the generated code is that the types have been removed—they are used during the compilation phase only. You can think of it as another test that runs at build time to verify that all the function calls are valid."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYoung generation reckon take $1m debt is new normal. I reckon they haven't experienced tough time in their life. At the end of doom's day, the whole country will be screwed. — "and vendor-financing of new housing developments." As many of the comments ask; where are the developers getting their money?  If the banks are stupidly lending ,then they deserve to get f**ked in the crash.  Of course the gov will bail out the banks and the tax payers get royally f**king screwed :@ :@ :@
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMy understanding Typescript doesn't lose its mojo. Function and closure are still its core features. A more OO like language style make it easier for adoption from Java side. Java Generics is rooted from C++ template concept?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhen Typescript supports Java like Class, Inheritance, Generics ... a more clean code structure, hmmm, I reckon I start liking it.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUX Unicorn vs. UX Donkey. — Frontend developers
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSpring Boot also supported in IntelliJ 14.1. — First Vagrant support, now Docker.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Damn straight." +Dean Budd  — "Developers take charge of your infrastructure." -- Michael Milewski @saramic
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLike the updated feature in interruption management. If I enable Timely, 5.1 knows disable interruption till Timely wakes me up in the morning. Very smart. — Upgrade to Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 , manually Can't wait for latest Android upgrade OTA so have to DIY and in a few manual steps. Previous version 5.0.1 seems having stability issues - animation out of control after using for a while; the system response become slower and slower every day after consequent heavy usage. Now I cultivate a new habit rebooting my Nexus 5 every week. Can't stand this anymore so I'm eager to upgrade a more stable and reliable Nexus major upgrade soon after it's released this week.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI had problem with camera couldn't be accessed in 5.0.1 sometime. Haven't noticed this issue so far — Upgrade to Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 , manually Can't wait for latest Android upgrade OTA so have to DIY and in a few manual steps. Previous version 5.0.1 seems having stability issues - animation out of control after using for a while; the system response become slower and slower every day after consequent heavy usage. Now I cultivate a new habit rebooting my Nexus 5 every week. Can't stand this anymore so I'm eager to upgrade a more stable and reliable Nexus major upgrade soon after it's released this week.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMost time you only need run an web service app, right? — Raspberry Pi is too yesterday, and a bit heavier in today's everything must be thinner, slimmer and light weight world. Welcome Tessel, a true hardware development platform for true programmers. The small Tessel board runs JavaScript right on the device. Expansion modules for the board will be available so you can plug and play Bluetooth & RFID connectivity, sensors, Arduino shield compatibility, or a Micro SD card into your project as needed. Additional features of the Tessel platform include: • Node js packaged module support (HTTP, async, etc) • 16-pin GPIO • ARM Cortex-M3 LPC1830, 32mb SDRAM and 32mb Flash
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNexus Root Toolkit v2.0.4 Masterlists: - LatestToolkitFiles.ini 3016 - AndroidDeviceListFull.ini 3016Information: Device Detected - AndroidDeviceListFlash.ini 3016 HAMMERHEAD-HAMMERHEAD: Android 5.1.0 - Build: LMY47D Live log initiated [2015-03-15]: Information: Checking ADB/FASTBOOT Connectivity adb devices List of devices attached  05b369780a5c9747 device fastboot devices Connectivity Status: ADB Device Connected Information: Rebooting your device into bootloader mode... adb reboot bootloader Information: Checking Fastboot Connectivity fastboot devices 05b369780a5c9747 fastboot Connectivity Status: Fastboot Device Connected Information: Temporarily Booting modified boot.img to enable running privileged commands... fastboot boot "C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Nexus Root Toolkit\data\Modified_Boot\modified_boot_hammerhead_5.1.0_LMY47D.img" Information: Waiting for your device... Information: Device Detected Information: Pushing root files to your device... adb push "C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Nexus Root Toolkit\data\Root_Files\busybox-signed.zip" "/sdcard/!ReadyToFlash/Root_Files/busybox-signed.zip" adb push "C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Nexus Root Toolkit\data\Root_Files\UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip" "/sdcard/!ReadyToFlash/Root_Files/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip" adb push "C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Nexus Root Toolkit\data\Root_Files\openrecoveryscript" "/cache/recovery/openrecoveryscript" Information: Rebooting your device into bootloader mode... adb reboot bootloader Information: Checking Fastboot Connectivity fastboot devices 05b369780a5c9747 fastboot Connectivity Status: Fastboot Device Connected Information: Temporarily Booting TWRP... fastboot boot "C:\Program Files (x86)\WugFresh Development\Nexus Root Toolkit\data\Recovery_Custom\TWRP\openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.2-hammerhead.img" Information: Rooting... Information: Waiting for your device... — Upgrade to Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 , manually Can't wait for latest Android upgrade OTA so have to DIY and in a few manual steps. Previous version 5.0.1 seems having stability issues - animation out of control after using for a while; the system response become slower and slower every day after consequent heavy usage. Now I cultivate a new habit rebooting my Nexus 5 every week. Can't stand this anymore so I'm eager to upgrade a more stable and reliable Nexus major upgrade soon after it's released this week.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMinimal ADB and Fastboot and latest WugFresh Nexus Root Toolkit are all you need. — Upgrade to Android 5.1 on my Nexus 5 , manually Can't wait for latest Android upgrade OTA so have to DIY and in a few manual steps. Previous version 5.0.1 seems having stability issues - animation out of control after using for a while; the system response become slower and slower every day after consequent heavy usage. Now I cultivate a new habit rebooting my Nexus 5 every week. Can't stand this anymore so I'm eager to upgrade a more stable and reliable Nexus major upgrade soon after it's released this week.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-androids-adb-and-fastboot-to-1586992378 — Having been waiting for Android Lollipop upgrade for several months on my stock but rooted Nexus 5 but nothing comes till yesterday. Google opens the door ajar allowing me upgrade directly to version 5.0.1 from current 4.4.4 in a particular time slot. Can't hold my excitement and click "Upgrade and Install" button immediately. After 500MB upgrade downloaded, and restart, an "Error!" message flashes on the screen and droid robot is laying on the ground. More details output found on the next screen says: "/system/vendor/etc/audio_effects.conf" has unexpected contents" Google becomes merciless to people dare to break its house and make life a little bit easier them. Sigh ... Googling solution for a few hours then find out two possible solutions: 1. Factory Reset a.k.a lost all your precious data 2. an unorthodox way of hacking ... ... Someone says that good engineers are borne out of love of craft of hacking and the desire to let as many people as possible benefit from source of knowledge.  Even I could risk losing the data and phone could become a brick, there is no way Google can weight its mighty power and stop me break its house again. • Download factory images for Nexus Devices from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images • Turn on Nexus 5 into developers mode, and connect it to PC via USB cable • Run fastboot command and install Radio/Phone network image, install Recovery, Boot and System images in phone recovery mode. And reboot, fingers crossed.  Image of rainbow on the screen spin, spin and spin ... About 5 minutes later, screen says converting 247 applications into ART. God, thank you very much, let Google lost legal battle against Oracle on Java VM case. Half an hour later, Lollipop lights up. A new world comes alive on Nexus 5. First thing after upgrade? Root it, again.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2pn5uf/read_this_before_posting_about_your_501_update/ — Having been waiting for Android Lollipop upgrade for several months on my stock but rooted Nexus 5 but nothing comes till yesterday. Google opens the door ajar allowing me upgrade directly to version 5.0.1 from current 4.4.4 in a particular time slot. Can't hold my excitement and click "Upgrade and Install" button immediately. After 500MB upgrade downloaded, and restart, an "Error!" message flashes on the screen and droid robot is laying on the ground. More details output found on the next screen says: "/system/vendor/etc/audio_effects.conf" has unexpected contents" Google becomes merciless to people dare to break its house and make life a little bit easier them. Sigh ... Googling solution for a few hours then find out two possible solutions: 1. Factory Reset a.k.a lost all your precious data 2. an unorthodox way of hacking ... ... Someone says that good engineers are borne out of love of craft of hacking and the desire to let as many people as possible benefit from source of knowledge.  Even I could risk losing the data and phone could become a brick, there is no way Google can weight its mighty power and stop me break its house again. • Download factory images for Nexus Devices from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images • Turn on Nexus 5 into developers mode, and connect it to PC via USB cable • Run fastboot command and install Radio/Phone network image, install Recovery, Boot and System images in phone recovery mode. And reboot, fingers crossed.  Image of rainbow on the screen spin, spin and spin ... About 5 minutes later, screen says converting 247 applications into ART. God, thank you very much, let Google lost legal battle against Oracle on Java VM case. Half an hour later, Lollipop lights up. A new world comes alive on Nexus 5. First thing after upgrade? Root it, again.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddKnow these places - https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/109948780366386925544/albums/6090280536003885409
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI really like to give it a try — Welcome to the future of Web Application Development - Polymer, a library for creating Web Components. https://www.polymer-project.org/ http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/06/26/polymer-vs-angular/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089075/what-is-the-difference-between-polymer-elements-and-angularjs-directives http://www.toptal.com/front-end/polymer-js-the-future-of-web-application-development http://customelements.io/
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Commented on post by Dean Budd4K game, wow! — Behold.... THE TITAN!!!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Finally this day has come. — Welcome to the future of Web Application Development - Polymer, a library for creating Web Components. https://www.polymer-project.org/ http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/06/26/polymer-vs-angular/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089075/what-is-the-difference-between-polymer-elements-and-angularjs-directives http://www.toptal.com/front-end/polymer-js-the-future-of-web-application-development http://customelements.io/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHave a look MeteorJS and React.js backed by Facebook — Within a few years, it will be rare to see an advanced web app that isn’t running some JavaScript on the server.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI'll come with you — Anyone going?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNever big of 15 inches MBP. Awkward size as a compromise of portability and performance. In a real world, I reckon you could only choose one of them :-) — No more new 15" Mac Book Pros?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGood proposal, bit will never happen. — Of course it's too sensible, so it'll not happen under this government.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGood infographic.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Will give you FIVE thumb up if I could. Great point! — F__K This S__t
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonUnless RBA like to see a correction in property market, a lesson to teach investors about speculation. — FFS, if it walks like a bubble, talks like a bubble, behaves like a bubble, it's a duck bubble.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSome people still use Java 1.0 because of applet ;-) — Java is dead. Ruby has killed it. Now after a reality check, actually it's JavaScript killed Ruby. Java is going to be here forever and ever ... ....
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, please explain yourself. Is RightScale your idea? Hahaha ... — RightScale, cloud over cloud, another layer on the top of AWS. Why need it if you only have one cloud solution across whole enterprise?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Java is dead, ONLY IF it could kill itself. :-D — Java is dead. Ruby has killed it. Now after a reality check, actually it's JavaScript killed Ruby. Java is going to be here forever and ever ... ....
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoToday Google Maps have become the de facto interface between the the physical and the digital world. The future of maps is indoors and offline. The next evolution of the map, humanising and contextualising location to make it more relevant to us. Read more:  http://recode.net/2015/02/08/ten-years-of-google-maps-from-slashdot-to-ground-truth/ http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/08/google-maps-10-anniversary-iphone-android-street-view — Ten years ago, two brothers, a four-people small firm and one idea had changed the world forever. Ten years is an awfully long time in tech but pioneer Google Maps has prevailed in the digital maps space, with over 1 billion monthly active users today. Even Apple chief executive Tim Cook eventually had to concede his company's maps product was a poor rival. For its 10th birthday, we take a look at the many ways Google Maps has changed our lives. 1. It made sure we never get lost again Long gone are the days when intrepid travellers got lost in the back streets of Bangkok, fumbling through their phrasebooks as they pumped locals for directions. Unquestionably, the digital map has revolutionised the ease with which we can travel - whether it be by car, boat, plane, train or foot. "We increasingly depend on technology for navigation, which takes some of the important serendipity out of the travel equation," says tourism expert Ulrike Gretzel from the University of Queensland. That dependence can also mean we're left in the lurch if we're ever required to navigate without the assistance of technology. But it also frees us to be more flexible and spontaneous in our travel plans. There are some areas of travel Google has yet to completely conquer, however. Professor Gretzel's research shows tourists not only still ask for printed maps at visitor centres but ask questions like, "Google Maps told me to go this way, is this really the best way?" - suggesting that many people still trust a real person over an algorithm. 2. It nuked guide books and street directories Once the backpacker's best friend, iconic Australian brand Lonely Planet has suffered blow after blow to its bottom line. Thanks to up-to-date digital travel tools like Google Maps and TripAdvisor, there's no need to lug around a 2-inch thick brick any more. And as for those getting around on four wheels, the humble street directory is also an endangered species. Sydney's Gregory's directory was swallowed whole by UBD in 2011. While GPS devices are still popular, Google Maps' Navigation tool gives anyone with a decent smartphone turn-by-turn instructions, free. 3. It enabled us to "beat the traffic" - even in peak hour Punch "traffic" into your Google Maps search bar and you'll see real-time traffic conditions for your area. Or you could wait for the traffic update on the radio. westgate.png Don't take the West Gate! Screenshot: Google Maps. 4. It put Australia on the map Google Maps actually began in Australia as a fledgling start-up, run out of local engineer Noel Gordon's spare room in Hunters Hill, Sydney. Gordon and three others, including Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen - Lars now works at Facebook - founded Where 2 Technologies in 2003. Google snapped it up the next year, with the founders staying on at Google. Noel is still there today. In 2010 The Pearcey Foundation awarded the Rasmussens NSW's Entrepreneurs of the Year award, hailing them as having "positioned Australia as a global leader in online services". Today Google's Sydney office boasts some 900 local staff. They get free bacon and eggs for breakfast, clock up goodie points and trade them for massages, and get around the building - shared with Fairfax Media - on scooters. (Fairfax staff do not get to use the scooters, sadly.) Check out these whiteboard scribbles from the early days, when the Where 2 team was working on a deal with Google founder Larry Page. 5. It revolutionised real estate No more nasty surprises after travelling halfway across town to inspect the worst dump you've ever seen in your life. With Google Maps' Street View feature you can have a gander at the neighbourhood as if you were right there. Maps is also super handy for checking how long it takes to walk to amenities such as local shops or public transport, with Google estimating walking and cycling times instantly and with relative accuracy. Many estate agents and property search companies also use Google Maps to power their apps and websites, giving home-hunters a better user experience. 6. It took armchair travel to a whole new level But why stop at the next suburb? With Street View you can roam the rues of Paris and the barrios of Barcelona. There are vast swaths of the world that aren't even covered by Maps, let alone Street View (namely China, Russia, Iceland and the vast majority of Africa, Antarctica and the Middle East), but there's plenty of content to keep even the most seasoned traveller entertained. Google has also specially curated a number of "treks" for curious web-surfers, including the pyramids of Giza, the temples of Angkor Wat and even underwater experiences such as swimming through the Great Barrier Reef. Crowd sourcing adds another layer of interactivity to the experience, with users invited to upload photographs and reviews of locations they've visited. In 2012 the Indonesian government recognised the benefits of Google Maps to tourism, and partnered with the tech giant to bring Maps to its big cities. 7. It's helping preserve environments and culture By its very nature armchair tourism may encourage preservation of special destinations by satisfying travellers' hunger without them having to trample the site in person. "Putting a place on the map" also takes on new meaning when it comes to educating the public about our geographical heritage. In 2011, indigenous communities living in Brazil's expansive Amazon rainforest turned Street View into "river view" in a bid to show people where, and how, they lived - and why their habitat needed protection. Last year it began mapping Australia's national parks. 8. A million other apps might not exist without it Urbanspoon, Uber, Airbnb, Expedia, WhatsApp - so many apps we know and love are based on the Google Maps application user interface (API). Google says there are about 1 million third-party websites and apps actively using its technology. 9. It made detective work so much easier Street View in particular - is a treasure trove of evidence for those who know what they're looking for. In 2013, Lithuanian authorities combed images for evidence of unauthorised property developments, as leads for potential instances of tax violation. Police have used the tool as an aid in more grisly investigations, such as homing in on child porn rings. Then there's the delightful story of Saroo Brierley. He got lost on the streets of Calcutta at the age of five and was adopted by an Australian couple. Years later, as an adult, he tracked down his Indian birth mother with the help of Google Maps, and his memory. Brierley wrote a book about it - and now it's being made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. 10. But it also, regrettably, made stalking easier Combine Google Maps' speed and ease of use with the myriad other location-based apps (see 8) that people frequently use to broadcast their whereabouts - Tinder, Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook - and it's a cyberstalker's field day. Maps may be watching you more covertly depending on your user settings. Much of its functionality requires the location settings on a user's mobile device to be activated. Google collects that location data and stores it against a user's account. Google's Coordinate app, made for businesses to keep track of workers while on the road was shut down in January with users directed to Maps for Work.
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni+Michael Poloni​ it's beautiful. Must done lot time and efforts on gardening. — The summer weather returned to Melbourne this week, so on the weekend I took the opportunity to take some photos of the flowering plants in the garden.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddUnfortunately yes. Windows 10 runs from mainframe to embeded devices
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI still hope can run the latest Android OS on it.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOne positive thing I could see for licensed Bitcoin exchange is money laundering becomes legal and untraceable. Americans are very good at making shit then realise later they have to clean themselves. Over. — +Terrence Miao will be happy his BitCoin bed stash might actually be worth something.  Hahaha.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMinimal ADB and Fastboot - http://lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-androids-adb-and-fastboot-to-1586992378 — Having been waiting for Android Lollipop upgrade for several months on my stock but rooted Nexus 5 but nothing comes till yesterday. Google opens the door ajar allowing me upgrade directly to version 5.0.1 from current 4.4.4 in a particular time slot. Can't hold my excitement and click "Upgrade and Install" button immediately. After 500MB upgrade downloaded, and restart, an "Error!" message flashes on the screen and droid robot is laying on the ground. More details output found on the next screen says: "/system/vendor/etc/audio_effects.conf" has unexpected contents" Google becomes merciless to people dare to break its house and make life a little bit easier them. Sigh ... Googling solution for a few hours then find out two possible solutions: 1. Factory Reset a.k.a lost all your precious data 2. an unorthodox way of hacking ... ... Someone says that good engineers are borne out of love of craft of hacking and the desire to let as many people as possible benefit from source of knowledge.  Even I could risk losing the data and phone could become a brick, there is no way Google can weight its mighty power and stop me break its house again. • Download factory images for Nexus Devices from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images • Turn on Nexus 5 into developers mode, and connect it to PC via USB cable • Run fastboot command and install Radio/Phone network image, install Recovery, Boot and System images in phone recovery mode. And reboot, fingers crossed.  Image of rainbow on the screen spin, spin and spin ... About 5 minutes later, screen says converting 247 applications into ART. God, thank you very much, let Google lost legal battle against Oracle on Java VM case. Half an hour later, Lollipop lights up. A new world comes alive on Nexus 5. First thing after upgrade? Root it, again.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf Google can't help, you have to do it yourself. — Having been waiting for Android Lollipop upgrade for several months on my stock but rooted Nexus 5 but nothing comes till yesterday. Google opens the door ajar allowing me upgrade directly to version 5.0.1 from current 4.4.4 in a particular time slot. Can't hold my excitement and click "Upgrade and Install" button immediately. After 500MB upgrade downloaded, and restart, an "Error!" message flashes on the screen and droid robot is laying on the ground. More details output found on the next screen says: "/system/vendor/etc/audio_effects.conf" has unexpected contents" Google becomes merciless to people dare to break its house and make life a little bit easier them. Sigh ... Googling solution for a few hours then find out two possible solutions: 1. Factory Reset a.k.a lost all your precious data 2. an unorthodox way of hacking ... ... Someone says that good engineers are borne out of love of craft of hacking and the desire to let as many people as possible benefit from source of knowledge.  Even I could risk losing the data and phone could become a brick, there is no way Google can weight its mighty power and stop me break its house again. • Download factory images for Nexus Devices from https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images • Turn on Nexus 5 into developers mode, and connect it to PC via USB cable • Run fastboot command and install Radio/Phone network image, install Recovery, Boot and System images in phone recovery mode. And reboot, fingers crossed.  Image of rainbow on the screen spin, spin and spin ... About 5 minutes later, screen says converting 247 applications into ART. God, thank you very much, let Google lost legal battle against Oracle on Java VM case. Half an hour later, Lollipop lights up. A new world comes alive on Nexus 5. First thing after upgrade? Root it, again.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Check wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/lingyin+temple/@30.240772,120.102496,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xbeacbec946d6166c?sa=X&ei=soq_VIOUJ8PTmgW-0YCYCA&ved=0CJgBEPwSMA4
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd​ Buddhism was born in India, but grew and spread world wide from southeastern Asia countries.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFuture is good for programmers and JavaScript. — Latest Java Posse talked about client side programming, JavaScript, a lot of. And it's a fact now Ruby has been defected by JavaScript ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot yet — AngularJS objects in a nutshell · Ignore all the cache in the diagram. They are just for the improvement of the performance. AngularJS can run and  work without them. · No matter it’s provider, service, factory, value, they are ALL objects in the traditional MVC Service Layer. The subtle difference is like difference between procedure and function. They are initialised when inject into other objects. · ALL objects in service layer can be decorated, similar to Template Pattern used a lot in Spring modules. · Controller, Directive (Custom Tag?), Filter are ALL objects and SAME concept in the traditional MVC Control Layer. They are required to be initiated when they are invoked (sounds like lazy loading?) · ALL objects in Service and Control layers are injectable (as SAME as Spring). · ALL objects in Service and Control layers are Singleton (as SAME as default Spring bean type is Singleton). · You can’t use DI in constant (don’t know how to do DI in a static final “constant” in Spring).   Honestly to say, I don’t see AngularJS has any breakthrough architecture design than the “OLD” Spring MVC and Spring IoC.   Read more: - http://www.mikeobrien.net/blog/angular-consts-values-services-factories-and-providers-oh-my/ - http://blog.xebia.com/2013/09/01/differences-between-providers-in-angularjs/
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttps://www.docker.com/tryit Good tutorial. Like the Linux console emulator. — Tempting if I was doing more DevOps.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd IDT End of Year function? Why anyone wants to pay $50 to a party without alcohol and only finger food? — Please forward invitation to all Unico dudes who like join us
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Let's go together, then walk back. Need some kind of exercise. — Please forward invitation to all Unico dudes who like join us
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA lot good AngularJS practices mentioned in it: • Don't design, and then mark up. You must architect, and then design. • Only do DOM manipulation in a directive • Test-Driven development, always — An AngularJS development guide for jQuery developers
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Put control logic in directive controller, and DOM logic in link function; scope sharing is the glue." Can't get it ... ... ?! — Learning by doing is probably the most efficient way to learn
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWant to become a "last-mile" person? :-) — Tempting if I was doing more DevOps.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLike If-You-Build-It-You-Support-It idea. Think about in Google, there is no testing service and devops teams. Developers develop, test, fix, deploy, support, upgrade the product, in the product whole life cycle. I quite like that ... — Evan just gave his Microservice talk to us over lunch. Very good. I was expecting to see you there +Terrence Miao.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddPlease send invitation over next time. — Evan just gave his Microservice talk to us over lunch. Very good. I was expecting to see you there +Terrence Miao.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is Zen of all kind programming. — The Zen of Angular Angular is built around the belief that declarative code is better than imperative when it comes to building UIs and wiring software components together, while imperative code is excellent for expressing business logic. • It is a very good idea to decouple DOM manipulation from app logic. This dramatically improves the testability of the code. • It is a really, really good idea to regard app testing as equal in importance to app writing. Testing difficulty is dramatically affected by the way the code is structured. • It is an excellent idea to decouple the client side of an app from the server side. This allows development work to progress in parallel, and allows for reuse of both sides. • It is very helpful indeed if the framework guides developers through the entire journey of building an app: from designing the UI, through writing the business logic, to testing. • It is always good to make common tasks trivial and difficult tasks possible.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAbsolutely brilliant! — JavaScript doesn't need a Classical Object Inheritance JavaScript can be used like a classical language, but it also has a level of expressiveness which is quite unique. Classical objects are hard. The only way to add a new member to a hard object is to create a new class. In JavaScript, objects are soft. A new member can be added to a soft object by simple assignment. Because objects in JavaScript are so flexible, you will want to think differently about class hierarchies. Deep hierarchies are inappropriate. Shallow hierarchies are efficient and expressive.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd FYI — The word of mouth of customers are saying avoid
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI manually check Lollipop update every day! — I got the Android L update this morning on the Nexus 5. Very slick.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddMy Nexus 5 is rooted. Does it bother? — I got the Android L update this morning on the Nexus 5. Very slick.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddMy Nexus 5 still say "Your system is up to date. Last checked for update at 10:47am." This is a typical racism Kiwi to Aussie. — I got the Android L update this morning on the Nexus 5. Very slick.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBig data, large scale, high performance and growth. These are the words I like to hear.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOf course, don't. Iteration Manager is a suck hole. People respect you because your tech capabilities, not your skills bullshitting and mucking around. — Hi Deano, How's your life in APDM? May I ask your help? One of our former Unico colleagues is going to join DDC as a perm. She maybe starts working in APDM. Could you please advise, honestly, no bullshit, how good and bad working in APDM? What I've heard from Post people that APDM is currently doomed. What the real situation like over there? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Terrence
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShe will be like the developer pull all the strings as Murray instructed if come to APDM ... :-( Don't like a good developer be involved these kind stupid, political war. — Hi Deano, How's your life in APDM? May I ask your help? One of our former Unico colleagues is going to join DDC as a perm. She maybe starts working in APDM. Could you please advise, honestly, no bullshit, how good and bad working in APDM? What I've heard from Post people that APDM is currently doomed. What the real situation like over there? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Terrence
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGreat help Deano. I own your a lot. You are the person I'd like follow and work with ALL my career life! — Hi Deano, How's your life in APDM? May I ask your help? One of our former Unico colleagues is going to join DDC as a perm. She maybe starts working in APDM. Could you please advise, honestly, no bullshit, how good and bad working in APDM? What I've heard from Post people that APDM is currently doomed. What the real situation like over there? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Terrence
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHosting sensitive trade secrets since 2002 submit by anonymous ... — Pastebin
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGreat presentation. Thanks all for the beer. Let's catch up soon. Kieran would like operate a brain wash for all of you, free of charge, why JavaScript is the future. — Myself and +Terrence Miao have been kicking it at a Meetup for AngularJS Melbourne http://meetu.ps/2CRns6
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Commented on post by Dean BuddMy life experience taught me that you should never trust a person with moustache. Stalin, Hitler, The Monopoly man, Obama ... This list can go on and on ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAustralia Post is Vagrant customer building VM images and running in AWS. — Start a new week from/on Stack Overflow
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFolks, your first hand experience, plus pointing me to the right direction, are more valuable than I tread a own path in internet jungle, or try to find out a piece of meat in an enormous dog turd. — +Bryan Murphy Hi Bryan, you mentioned to me a few months ago that project you working on was using Neo4J NoSQL solution to store images. What are Pros and Cons you reckon Neo4J. Any reason behind this decision go this redirection. Many thanks
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCode run in JVM actually faster than Python code. JVM today is already not yesterday's JVM. Computer languages should run on JVM if want to high scalability, like Scala and Clojure. Ruby fall out due to this. Python, a beautiful language, but not sure whether Google will stick with it. Like it's favourite baby Android written in Java ... — If you are a Java programmer, and you want to spend more time with family and friends, you should learn Scala.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy Awesome! I'll try to bring more questions to you next time catch up. BTW, put your next lunch meet-up bill on me! — +Bryan Murphy Hi Bryan, you mentioned to me a few months ago that project you working on was using Neo4J NoSQL solution to store images. What are Pros and Cons you reckon Neo4J. Any reason behind this decision go this redirection. Many thanks
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd No worries Deano. I just raise question and start a brain storm. You didn't mention you have contact with Neo4J before ... — +Bryan Murphy Hi Bryan, you mentioned to me a few months ago that project you working on was using Neo4J NoSQL solution to store images. What are Pros and Cons you reckon Neo4J. Any reason behind this decision go this redirection. Many thanks
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou are already a legend Deano! :-D — Woah. I've been using IntelliJ since '07!  No wonder I'm tired of banging on about it. LOL.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoVery very insightful. It turns on another light in my mind ... — It took me 10 hours to notice a cassandra node had a hardware failure because everything just kept working. Why Cassandra? +Dean Budd Deano, no matter where you hide, I know you are using it. What's reason and motivations behind this move? Why MySQL can't handle your address book size data set? Please explain yourself.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoKnowing your problem domain and what you try to solve very well Deano! Good explanation. Thanks mate. — It took me 10 hours to notice a cassandra node had a hardware failure because everything just kept working. Why Cassandra? +Dean Budd Deano, no matter where you hide, I know you are using it. What's reason and motivations behind this move? Why MySQL can't handle your address book size data set? Please explain yourself.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhere do you find 5K content to watch in full screen mode on this baby? — Glad I didn't buy that 4K monitor now +Dean Budd +Martin Paulo :p
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat a bubble blown by Federal Reserve. — S&P 500 and QE
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNexus player is a big surprise. — Nexus 9, 6, and Player. The first devices designed for Android Lollipop
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDeano, Bryan and I are in place now. — European Bier Cafe Deano and I are going to make a plan how to save Australia Post. Free feel to join us if you could walk to the venue and take about one and half hour break. Cheers
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAnd more +James Gemmell +Kieran Simpson  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/nab-to-raise-800m-profit-tipped-to-fall-13pc/story-e6frg8zx-1227085666768 — On ALL shareholders cost
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOnce again, QC is a software turd of its own. — Putting defects into ALM  (the HP successor to Quality Center) takes me back to my TU days of IE and Active X apps that pretended to be web apps. I feel dirty, dirty, dirty in a Enterprisey way.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPaul Volcker addressed this liquidity issue: “At some point, great liquidity, or the perception of it, may itself encourage more speculative trading, even in longer-term instruments. Presumably conservative institutional investors are tempted to turn over positions much more rapidly, at the expense of careful analysis of basic values. In the light of events, careful consideration of the benefits and possibly damaging consequences of increased liquidity has become the subject of new studies and commentary by economists and regulators. A consensus may be developing that beyond some point, little or no public benefit may be evident.” John Bogle, the Vanguard Group founder said: “Liquidity is partly a state of mind. Is there such a thing as too much liquidity that is misleading people into investment behavior that is damaging to the economy?” John Bogle then added his opinion on liquidity: “Samuel Johnson had a saying that Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. And I have an idea that liquidity is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” “All this trading creates nothing, creates no value, in fact, subtracts from value.” “IPOs and secondaries amount to about $200 billion per year, but last year we had $40 trillion of trading in the US securities. There is 200 times as much speculation as there is investment ... or investment accounts for 0.5% of the function of Wall Street.” Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the FSA, questioned the value of “liquidity” in a 2010 speech  : “A reasonable judgement on the economic value added of increased liquidity does deliver benefits but subject to diminishing marginal utility, and the increased financial speculation required to deliver increased liquidity creates an increasing danger of destabilising herd and momentum effects, the larger pure financial activity becomes relative to underlying real economic activity.” — "Liquidity is the last refuge of the scoundrel." -- John Bogle Read more - http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is my day ... — Word of the Day - Snafu SNAFU - Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNo, like multiple users white board — Featuring talks like... Advanced Pasting Techniques Ten Ways Exiting Notepad is Better Than Exiting Vim
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhy do you still stick with PHP? — Upgraded to PhpStorm 8 today.  JetBrains makes it so easy!!!  All their settings are structured intelligently with a corresponding file structure.  Sure it's XML, but it's still easy to archive (hg repo) and port settings between IntelliJ and other tools. My only annoyance is that you have to redownload your plugins, so between the initial install, settings updates, plugin reinstall you index your codebases a lot.  Good thing it's on a SSD :)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRed hot housing market, you know what RBA is doing. — Central banks have goosed up all asset prices, not because they like being investors' best friends, they don't, but because that's the only way they can hope to stimulate the economy.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhat I want is a shared notepad. Can connect from anywhere, on any platforms. — Featuring talks like... Advanced Pasting Techniques Ten Ways Exiting Notepad is Better Than Exiting Vim
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGovernment won't save people who got bankrupted but will bail out banks. I believe it. — I think Joe's been inhaling the cigar smoke a little too deeply.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOne colleague bought a house for $900K two weeks ago. Another colleague bought a house last week for $1.3 million. This ruthless bank which lend out such a big amount money and let them deeply in debt is no one but NAB ... I'm going to buy more NAB shares :-P +James Gemmell  — I think Joe's been inhaling the cigar smoke a little too deeply.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFantastic post about Clojure in real world! Netflix has a lot open source goodies!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddInundated information. Have to digest slowly! — From a colleague... 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonEvery crisis starts at the peak of the bubble. — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WTF do they call a crisis then?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOnly a bit highlight of Roger's matches. — +Dean Downing +Justin Gan
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Commented on post by Dean BuddCan Google find me an empty parking lot? — Parking Location now on Google Now.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAll the current cloud solutions have fundamental performance or capacity limits. So Google and Facebook build their owned infrastructure. — HT: +Martin Paulo 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCoffeeScript is JavaScript on steroid. TypeScript is JavaScript of tomorrow. Time will have the final judgement. — JavaScript and CSS Why people have the love and hate relationship with JavaScript? JavaScript is a sloppy language, but inside it there is an elegant, better language. Why do you hate CSS? Mostly because you don't understand it. Why people waste their time rewriting Javascript to Coffeescript, rewriting CSS to SASS? Because they like JavaScript, CSS ugly and unloved.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniOnly important files need RAID. Download TV shows not. — It's time to renew the disk storage in my PC 'server' at home.  The difficult decision is choosing what to buy!  3TB or 4TB capacities?  Normal disks or specially designed NAS disks? I usually buy Seagate Barracuda disks for the "workhorse" disks (OS and MythTV/media).  But this time I'm considering Seagate NAS disks. Seagate's NAS disks are slightly more expensive, but are designed to cope better with always-on and warmer environments (I have fans blowing over the disks, but the room they're in gets warm in summer).  With better reliability I'm sacrificing some performance, but also using a little less electricity. Running costs between 3TB & 4TB may be worth considering (maybe I can use fewer disks).  The upfront cost difference is small between capacities, and about $10/TB between normal and NAS disks: * 3TB Barracuda disk: $41.33/TB * 4TB Barracuda disk: $45.25/TB * 3TB NAS disk: $51.66/TB * 4TB NAS disk: $54.50/TB And I have to decide, do I setup a mirror RAID this time? #HD
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd hi cool kid, remind me when Perl during its peak time. Everyone could write Perl in its own syntax. Look it now. — Start working on a new web app which is pure JavaScript, based on the architecture that all the services are behind abstract API layers. Same architecture as Google, Amazon ... AngularJS for MVC, Jasmine Unit Test, Protractor functional test, Grunt as build framework, JSHint code quality tool, SASS for CSS ... Under the hood it's Google hand made JavaScript V8 twin turbo chargers engine, coding speed from nil to 60 miles is under 3 seconds, that's impressive.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I'm working with DDC on MyPost project now. — Start working on a new web app which is pure JavaScript, based on the architecture that all the services are behind abstract API layers. Same architecture as Google, Amazon ... AngularJS for MVC, Jasmine Unit Test, Protractor functional test, Grunt as build framework, JSHint code quality tool, SASS for CSS ... Under the hood it's Google hand made JavaScript V8 twin turbo chargers engine, coding speed from nil to 60 miles is under 3 seconds, that's impressive.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAwesome report
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonPoliticians most of them who studing laws in Uni which regarded as the losers suck of subjects like mathmatics and economy.  — So now we've taken the silver in the housing bubble stakes. Letting people take money from their super is a very bad idea.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSomeone says honesty is an expensive gift, don't expect it from cheap people.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOne of the contributions of property bubble is RBA's ostrich or do nothing policy. One factor to get economy growth here is inflation. — “A pick-up in the property spruiking business is a signal things may be getting a little too exuberant,” said Paul Bloxham, HSBC Australia’s chief economist. The spruikers are out in force
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSteve Yegge who created Rhino for Rails once made a call that “JVM is the killer application of Clojure”. — We Open Sourced our first Clojure project today. Exciting times.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWiremock is like Mockito for HTTP. Its stubbed HTTP response should be suitable for most unit and integration test with Jetty as built in web container. +Dean Budd Deano initiated with a file system based mock services under his Open Tomato Sauce licence. It's same idea, but he couldn't finish it as a generic app. — There are web services mocking tools like latest SoapUI 5.0,  focused on improving the REST testing capabilities, and UltraESB mocking a typical ESB in SOA environment. Now there is WireMock, an extra light weight tool by creating an actual standalone HTTP server response stubbing, or embeded within an application, even as mocked stub in unit test.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAnother good stuff from Deano's bat cave! Have had look the code, from a Java developer with zero Clojure experience, is very clean and brevity. Without one line comments, but there is no block to me to understand how this library targets and tries to achieve. Seems Clojure is good for data, big data, not surprise why Google backs it. Now a question comes up, what is Clojure's killer application? What can it really do? Will it have a fate only popular in geek's community? Getting confused. More help please :-) — We Open Sourced our first Clojure project today. Exciting times.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-24/australian-housing-values-vulnerable-to-rise-in-interest-rates/5621112?section=business — "Not yet overvalued" - wonder what's in Moody's pipe that they're smoking. At least NG is getting seriously smashed in the MSM.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhy you guys haven't found how great these 3 posts are?! They are mind boggling stuff. I try to find time and review them again, word by word! — I found Part 3 the most contentious, but coupled with http://www.slideshare.net/ewolff/java-application-servers-are-dead I think I've been won over +Dean Budd that App Servers are no longer needed.  You need Docker and Spring and you get all the benefits.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe average home buyer would be better off renting if house price growth slows below its long-term average, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia.  Real house prices have increased at an average annual rate of slightly less than 2.5 per cent since 1955, according to RBA paper.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe bankers role is putting everyone into heavy debt.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCorrection but not crash. Have come across this news. Don't worry, government will bail out our banks.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddMicroservices are nothing new than unix's priciple - building short, simple, clear, modular, and extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators, and nothing new than partition centralised services into multiple separated independent services. However, why not those "architects" couldn't practise these simple philosophies after sucked their heads into Oracle's hole. Sometime, you have to yell out "Hang on, let's go back to basics and fundemental things!"
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGreat catch up. Great to see people are working on a lot interesting stuff! — Guys, we need to catch up for a lunch and have a discussion of how to get budget passed for the coming financial year ... Cheers
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis the difference between DVCS and CVCS. You can't run away without it. — I HATE GIT! Sorry, need to let that out... HAHAHA Gimme good old Subversion any old day.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson the pain of learning Git looks like a good investment now — I HATE GIT! Sorry, need to let that out... HAHAHA Gimme good old Subversion any old day.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe only product Atlassian done well is Git Stash. Don't know how people got excited with its other so-so apps. — I HATE GIT! Sorry, need to let that out... HAHAHA Gimme good old Subversion any old day.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGet over it Deano! +Dean Budd — I HATE GIT! Sorry, need to let that out... HAHAHA Gimme good old Subversion any old day.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNo way back after switch to Git. Git has everything you want if you can imagine. — I HATE GIT! Sorry, need to let that out... HAHAHA Gimme good old Subversion any old day.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou should be in office at 6am. — Trams down on St Kilda Road
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe Odecee guy Brett Oglow is working in mobile project in Post now. Had a few chat with him before. Busy day after two projects in Prod at weekend. Will try to make it next time. — Getting my AngularJS on +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao +Martin Paulo http://meetu.ps/2mZj6Y
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd very very informative answers Deano. Need a few months to digest your replies! — IDE for Clojure programming +Dean Budd Deano, what's IDE you recommend for Clojure programming?  Main stream IDE like IntelliJ and Eclipse are generic tools, not "medical" specialities targetting and dedicated to a paticular programming language. What's your suggestion? What IDE you are using in your work? I'm very sure +James Gemmell Mr. J will say Emacs not because Clojure is Lisp rooted but also when you learn Emacs 2,000 built-in commands, learn how to customise in Emacs Lisp, that's as same effect as you learn Clojure ... I come across Light Table today. This is some kind editor I have never seen before. Lightweight, one goal only, and plugable, also supports Clojure and other major programming languages. Anyone has experience with it and what your comments are? Check: http://www.lighttable.com/ P.S. Any post I add as private in G+ please treat as business highly confidential stuff. No any information leak to the press and close family member please.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFeminist or unisex? — Like a lot of people I look at some of the latest fashion and am kind of confused. But finally! Something practical!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHave downloaded the first release and testing now. +Kieran Simpson  — Here you go +Terrence Miao 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ― Jim Rohn — Excelsior - One thing Dropbox founder Drew Houston has learned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard. Can you imagine if Michael Jordan hadn't been in the NBA, if his circle of five had been a bunch of guys in Italy? The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun ... ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonUse Squirrel only when access H2 db. — JetBrains is showing how to monetize a plugin architecture.  Take a base IDE platform, make everything a plugin then bundle those plugins as a product.  Knowing the teams, any DB features will be backported into the IntelliJ product, and potentially others like phpStorm (which already has IntelliJ's DB features).
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHave signed up. Sick of SQL Developer. Toad is a pest and banned in office. — JetBrains is showing how to monetize a plugin architecture.  Take a base IDE platform, make everything a plugin then bundle those plugins as a product.  Knowing the teams, any DB features will be backported into the IntelliJ product, and potentially others like phpStorm (which already has IntelliJ's DB features).
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper what is your Wireless HDMI Video Transmitter solution? — Bought a Chromecast today! Works a treat!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAustralia is the place with properties so expensive to buy and rental cost so low that people can ignore. Tough time will come soon as austerity - new budget kicked in ... — "As experience overseas has shown, you do nobody a favour by trying to solve an affordability issue by making it easier for people to borrow more than they can reasonably service." NEVER get into an argument with people in a Bank on this subject.  Got smacked down (even though I had the better argument).  Thankfully due to legislation Aussie banks can't f**k us over too much.  Of course with this current Federal gov you never know when the legislation will change.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd I'm using vim plugin in IntelliJ! — +Terrence Miao, I swapped out to iTerm2. Pretty cool.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWill give a try. Like one of its feature handler support SSH:// links. When I click a ssh link on Wiki, a xterm could open up and automatically login a remote host. If they are good, windows support is also needed. — +Terrence Miao, I swapped out to iTerm2. Pretty cool.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyWonder how to write a rubik cube app? — The Rubik's Cube is on the google doodle of the day.  It takes a bit of getting used to the controls but it's manageable. And no, I wasn't working for 4 hours solid on it.  
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyCan't believe you spent time on this. Get a real one! :-D — The Rubik's Cube is on the google doodle of the day.  It takes a bit of getting used to the controls but it's manageable. And no, I wasn't working for 4 hours solid on it.  
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://www.theage.com.au/business/nab-and-abs-staff-in-insider-trade-bust-20140509-3813q.html Greed and money driven culture ... — Interesting.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReputations are built up over a lifetime and destroyed in 10 minutes. — Why I've got a Packer up my clacker One of the richest aussie billionaires exchanges punches against his best mate for 35 years in daylight in a Sydney Bondi street, showing what the true fighting spirit is in this great country ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoiPhone 5, Galaxy S5, even Nexus 5 will be blowed away! — ONEPLUS ONE - 2014 Flagship mobile phones killer • SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor with 2.5 GHz quad-core, Adreno 330 GPU • RAM: 3 GB LP-DDR3 • Storage: 16 GB / 64 GB • Screen: 5.5-inch JDI (IPS LCD) 1080p resolution with Gorilla Glass 3 • Camera: 13 MP Sony Exmor sensor (f/2.0, flash, and 4K video), front-facing 5MP • Battery: 3100 mAh (nonremovable) • Weight: 162 grams • Size: 152.9 mm x 75.9 mm x 8.9 mm • Sound: Bottom-mounted stereo speakers • Wireless: Dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G/5G) 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, GPS/GLONASS • Mobile connectivity: GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz - WCDMA bands: 1/2/4/5/8 - LTE bands: 1/3/4/7/17/38/40
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNo, in IDS. DDC is on AWS. Odecce contract with Post and is doing these Devops work - moving apps from hostworks to AWS. — +Terrence Miao, you're in the Aus Post main building yeah?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNo, 80 Collins St. Lunch together today? — +Terrence Miao, you're in the Aus Post main building yeah?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe red hot Chinese property market has already started deflating itself. Builders have to cut the price to lure hook into. When the wind changes the direction, used to be enthusiastic buyers suddenly disappear. Lesson today for Chinese is lesson tomorrow for Australian.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI reckon JVM will dominate future programming language development. — It's very hard to imagine that Lisp a functional program language designed for Artificial Intelligence, without OO support, disguises as Clojure, after not doing so much for over 50 years finally takes off. What's wrong with it? Is this Clojure / Lisp combo ready to take on big stage, or like Ruby, just another fad? Is it capable for enterprise, or just for startup which most likely to be misearble in the end? Please explain yourself Deano +Dean Budd  
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonJust reported the truth accidentally. Hahaha — A newspaper that finally tells the truth +James Gemmell +Terrence Miao hahahahaha
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood point Deano! Concurrent programming is the key! — It's very hard to imagine that Lisp a functional program language designed for Artificial Intelligence, without OO support, disguises as Clojure, after not doing so much for over 50 years finally takes off. What's wrong with it? Is this Clojure / Lisp combo ready to take on big stage, or like Ruby, just another fad? Is it capable for enterprise, or just for startup which most likely to be misearble in the end? Please explain yourself Deano +Dean Budd  
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao360° photo sphere only available on Android
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Commented on post by Dean BuddOk , postpont please. Haven't fully recovered from Easter break.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA full name email address should do the trick, except my friend Srini. His email address is 40 characters long - Srinivas.Bangalore-Vaidyanathan-Venkatarangaiah@paradise.com.au :-) — When automation goes wrong ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhatsApp server is almost completely implemented in Erlang. • Server systems that do the backend message routing are done in Erlang. • Great achievement is that the number of active users is managed with a really small server footprint. Team consensus is that it is largely because of Erlang. • Interesting to note Facebook Chat was written in Erlang in 2009, but they went away from it because it was hard to find qualified programmers. WhatsApp server has started from ejabberd • Ejabberd is a famous open source Jabber server written in Erlang. • Originally chosen because its open, had great reviews by developers, ease of start and the promise of Erlang’s long term suitability for large communication system. • The next few years were spent re-writing and modifying quite a few parts of ejabberd, including switching from XMPP to internally developed protocol, restructuring the code base and redesigning some core components, and making lots of important modifications to Erlang VM to optimize server performance. — Puppet Labs moving from Ruby to Clojure? Interesting...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson My mistake. It's Erlang. — Puppet Labs moving from Ruby to Clojure? Interesting...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThat one's so stupid it underflows and becomes awesome! — This is a joke. Can you get it?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDamned it! It's not a bug but a feature! — This is a joke. Can you get it?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhatsApp developed in Clojure — Puppet Labs moving from Ruby to Clojure? Interesting...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDo you notice the difference in Chrome between OSX and Ubuntu? Nothing. Ok, stop whinging and go back to your seat with a Mac :-) — What shell replacement do you guys use on OSX? The bundled one is garbage! ;) Are people really serious when they say OSX is better than Ubuntu for development?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIf you were born in Unix age, the underneath of both of them are SAME. If you know how to use git, sed, less and more, you don't need to re-learn them after switch over. — What shell replacement do you guys use on OSX? The bundled one is garbage! ;) Are people really serious when they say OSX is better than Ubuntu for development?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLet's wait for the coming budget supposed big cut of the entitlement, and get warm up work until 70! One GFC is not painful enough to remind people the risk of leverage and deep in debt. Anyway, panic and fear are good friends of astute investors ... — Not sure how I feel about the cutting to the NRAS as I don't know much about it.  However given the recent article link from +James Gemmell (http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/04/hia-continues-spurious-defence-of-negative-gearing/) on how negative gearing is doing f**k all for housing, I'm hoping that the cow gets sacrificed, cut up and chow'd down on.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLike movie Mission Impossible, I just remember a few main password in my head, keep other "57" password in a highly secure box and a few backup. I'd rather can't login due to without password at hand, than delegate my trust to a third party ... — Have you run this +Kieran Simpson?
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Commented on post by Dean Budd1. Trust no one, even LastPass 2. Change password regularily and use two-step verification — Have you run this +Kieran Simpson?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDeano, do you want to meet at HQ building and go together to the pub?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIn 1990s, the invincible and formidable three - Microsoft, Intel and Cisco shares traded at PE around 75. Today, they trade at PE 12 - 13. History keeps repeating itself when Facebook, Google and Twitter have PE near 100 at present. — Major US tech stocks on April 10th close vs 2014 high • Google: -10.34% • Apple: -1.67% • Yahoo: -15.44% • Yelp!: -35.08% • Tesla: -19.18% • Facebook: -17.34% • Twitter: -23.98% • Netflix: -26.19% • Cisco: +3.57% • Intel: +7.86% • Microsoft: +3.28% • Zynga: -28.47% • Amazon: -14.84% • eBay: -8.12% • LinkedIn: -18.17%
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNo, still Java and Javascript mixed — How JSP debugging in IntelliJ Read more - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jsp/jsp_debugging.htm
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Commented on post by Dean BuddCan you move to another after work Friday so we can gather more people?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDead horse theory and Agile Ways to remediate failed projects (aka dead horses): . Buy a stronger whip. . Change riders. . Say things like, “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.” . Appoint a committee to study the horse. . Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses. . Increase the standards to ride dead horses. . Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse. . Create training to increase riding ability. . Compare the state of dead horses in today’s environment. . Change the requirements declaring that “This horse is not dead.” . Hire contractors to ride the dead horse. . Harness several dead horses together for increased speed. . Declare that “No horse is too dead to beat.” . Provide additional funding to increase the horse’s performance. . Do a Cost Analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper. . Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster. . Declare the horse is “better, faster and cheaper” dead. . Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses. . Revisit the performance requirements for horses. . Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable. . Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position. . Outsource the dead horse to a low-cost country. . Try switching to Agile …. . When that doesn’t work, Try switching to Lean http://agilemindstorm.com/2011/06/20/dead-horse-and-agile/  — Agile Is Dead. Long live TDD. Long live EDD (Example Driven Development) Read more - http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFinally, you are the last one joins Dark side. Of course, except Mr. J +James Gemmell still believes he is a Jedi ... — Unboxing my new Mac...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddJS template and partial page rendering. Hmmm, +Casper Casper have you got anything out from Meteor? I'm waiting for your report :-P — Angular's so last week!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniInstall Microsoft Moble on Android Nexus 5 today. Same feeling ... :-) — Hmmm... Microsoft are now requiring an alternate contact method for security purposes on their Outlook 'Live' free email service.  So, for my long-held hotmail account I now need to provide them with either my phone number or an alternative email address. I can't say I'm happy about this. Why do I need to provide such identifiable information about myself?  My secondary hotmail account is used for various spam and junkmail purposes (that I receive, not send!), and hence I don't want it tied to me.  Looks like I'll need to create another email account somewhere else for the sole purpose of fulfilling Microsoft's new security policies. Skip for now (7 days until this is required)   #gripe  
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAgile is a culture, not a set of practices. Alan Kay said that programming today has become a pop culture. Another reference that Agile has already being corrupted - http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-corruption-of-agile/240166698 Big five +Oleg Kiorsak  — Agile Is Dead. Long live TDD. Long live EDD (Example Driven Development) Read more - http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAustralian beer consumption plummets to 70-year lows - http://www.businessinsider.com.au/australias-record-low-alcohol-consumption-challenges-the-booze-culture-myth-2014-4 — Important research +Dean Budd & +James Gemmell 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAnything more can add into The Dead Horse Theroy? Of course - to adopt agile methodologies ... — Agile Is Dead. Long live TDD. Long live EDD (Example Driven Development) Read more - http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoJust relay this post firstly noticed by a few colleauges ... — Agile Is Dead. Long live TDD. Long live EDD (Example Driven Development) Read more - http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd See the problem through, far and deep Deano. Especially like your comment that "JavaScript world is a bit crazy for the moment". — Angular's so last week!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniMicrosoft Office for iPad is good. I just set up my Microsoft corporate account, using my gmail to access ... ... — Hmmm... Microsoft are now requiring an alternate contact method for security purposes on their Outlook 'Live' free email service.  So, for my long-held hotmail account I now need to provide them with either my phone number or an alternative email address. I can't say I'm happy about this. Why do I need to provide such identifiable information about myself?  My secondary hotmail account is used for various spam and junkmail purposes (that I receive, not send!), and hence I don't want it tied to me.  Looks like I'll need to create another email account somewhere else for the sole purpose of fulfilling Microsoft's new security policies. Skip for now (7 days until this is required)   #gripe  
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYou little bugger! I have been looking for you for so long! — How JSP debugging in IntelliJ Read more - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jsp/jsp_debugging.htm
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI'm not against Microsoft's practice. However, as a shareholder, or a Microsoft user, I demand a dividend, fully franked from the handy profit you made from U.S. government! — Microsoft sold personal data to FBI for $200 per person
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI have been waiting for this day for so long. Agile is dead. Long live TDD! Haha
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Seabook Chen  — To illustrate certain fundamentals of investing: • You don’t need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren’t, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don’t swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick “no.” • Focus on the future productivity of the asset you are considering. If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isn’t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake. • If you instead focus on the prospective price change of a contemplated purchase, you are speculating. There is nothing improper about that. I know, however, that I am unable to speculate successfully, and I am skeptical of those who claim sustained success at doing so. Half of all coin-flippers will win their first toss; none of those winners has an expectation of profit if he continues to play the game. And the fact that a given asset has appreciated in the recent past is never a reason to buy it. • With my two small investments, I thought only of what the properties would produce and cared not at all about their daily valuations. Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. If you can enjoy Saturdays and Sundays without looking at stock prices, give it a try on weekdays. • Forming macro opinions or listening to the macro or market predictions of others is a waste of time. Indeed, it is dangerous because it may blur your vision of the facts that are truly important (When I hear TV commentators glibly opine on what the market will do next, I am reminded of Mickey Mantle’s scathing comment: “You don’t know how easy this game is until you get into that broadcasting booth.”) ... ... Owners of stocks, however, too often let the capricious and often irrational behavior of their fellow owners cause them to behave irrationally as well. Because there is so much chatter about markets, the economy, interest rates, price behavior of stocks, etc., some investors believe it is important to listen to pundits – and, worse yet, important to consider acting upon their comments. Those people who can sit quietly for decades when they own a farm or apartment house too often become frenetic when they are exposed to a stream of stock quotations and accompanying commentators delivering an implied message of “Don’t just sit there, do something.” For these investors, liquidity is transformed from the unqualified benefit it should be to a curse. A “flash crash” or some other extreme market fluctuation can’t hurt an investor any more than an erratic and mouthy neighbor can hurt my farm investment. Indeed, tumbling markets can be helpful to the true investor if he has cash available when prices get far out of line with values. A climate of fear is your friend when investing; a euphoric world is your enemy. -- Warren E Buffett
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Mate, you need to stat using WhatApp or WeChat and see how popular they are. They are NOT traditional 140 characters SMS or modern Google Talk messaging anymore. Especially WeChat, it tries to integrate everything in it, including online payment system, and taxi booking app ... — Messaging is a threat to Google and Facebook. The desktop is dead. The web is dying. Messaging + mobile is an entire ecosystem that sidesteps their channel • 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history. • 32 developers; one developer supports 14 million active users • 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms (inbound + outbound) • 1+ million people sign up every day • > 8000 cores • Hundreds of terabytes of RAM • > 70M Erlang messages per second • In 2011 WhatsApp achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine with memory and cpu to spare. In 2012 that was pushed to over 2 million tcp connections. In 2013 WhatsApp tweeted out: On Dec 31st we had a new record day: 7B msgs inbound, 11B msgs outbound = 18 billion total messages processed in one day!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao• Limits in the cause of simplicity are OK. Your identity is tied to the phone number, so if you change your phone number your identity is gone. This is very un-computer like. But it does make the entire system much simpler in design. • Age ain’t nothing. If it was age discrimination that prevented WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton from getting a job at both Twitter and Facebook in 2009, then shame, shame, shame ...  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/whatsapp-founder-brian-acton-turned-3166541 — Messaging is a threat to Google and Facebook. The desktop is dead. The web is dying. Messaging + mobile is an entire ecosystem that sidesteps their channel • 450 million active users, and reached that number faster than any other company in history. • 32 developers; one developer supports 14 million active users • 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms (inbound + outbound) • 1+ million people sign up every day • > 8000 cores • Hundreds of terabytes of RAM • > 70M Erlang messages per second • In 2011 WhatsApp achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine with memory and cpu to spare. In 2012 that was pushed to over 2 million tcp connections. In 2013 WhatsApp tweeted out: On Dec 31st we had a new record day: 7B msgs inbound, 11B msgs outbound = 18 billion total messages processed in one day!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAnd can't earn interest rate on deposit. Hahaha — Can't get reimbursed, can't claim capital gain loss, can't sue the company ...
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Commented on post by Casper CasperLike a partial rendering page just as same size as your browser window. If scroll down will show / render more content, no matter it's long or short landing page. — http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/02/19/long-v-short-landing-pages/#!wAcqe
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCome on Boll. Beat the robot. Tell who is the master. — Man vs. Robot duel Table Tennis Champion 32-year-old Timo Boll from German will face off against a ping pong  playing robot on March 11, 2014. Read more - http://www.kuka-timoboll.com/en/home/
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Commented on post by Casper CasperAmazing! — http://12factor.net
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDust.js - https://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/client-side-templating-throwdown-mustache-handlebars-dustjs-and-more — I quite like Handlebars and have been using it as my templating language for a while.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDon't know the answer of your question 😅 — Have you guys been doing much with type hinting for Javascript in WebStorm/IntelliJ?  When I try to do autocomplete, or CTRL+Click to move into a function definition I get thousands of options because of the way that  a NPM based project parses all the node_modules.  If two NPM modules both use module Foo which has a function foo() then foo() shows up twice in the autocomplete list.  Needless to say it's confusing, and unhelpful. I've gotten really good with type hinting with PHP eg: class Foo {   public function foo() { ... } } /**@var Foo */ $var->(foo() appears in the autocomplete options) By reading PHPDoc comments the tool knows the type at code time.  However PHP is still a classic OO language, compared with Javascript's prototypical nature, so there's going to be some differences.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCorrect answer. JavaScript is an Object Oriented programming language. Has all fundamental OO features. JavaScript sacrifices inheritance for encapsulation.  — Have you guys been doing much with type hinting for Javascript in WebStorm/IntelliJ?  When I try to do autocomplete, or CTRL+Click to move into a function definition I get thousands of options because of the way that  a NPM based project parses all the node_modules.  If two NPM modules both use module Foo which has a function foo() then foo() shows up twice in the autocomplete list.  Needless to say it's confusing, and unhelpful. I've gotten really good with type hinting with PHP eg: class Foo {   public function foo() { ... } } /**@var Foo */ $var->(foo() appears in the autocomplete options) By reading PHPDoc comments the tool knows the type at code time.  However PHP is still a classic OO language, compared with Javascript's prototypical nature, so there's going to be some differences.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI had interviewed two candidates in last couple days. One question I asked both of them is is JavaScript a Object Oriented language? What is your answer? Why? — Have you guys been doing much with type hinting for Javascript in WebStorm/IntelliJ?  When I try to do autocomplete, or CTRL+Click to move into a function definition I get thousands of options because of the way that  a NPM based project parses all the node_modules.  If two NPM modules both use module Foo which has a function foo() then foo() shows up twice in the autocomplete list.  Needless to say it's confusing, and unhelpful. I've gotten really good with type hinting with PHP eg: class Foo {   public function foo() { ... } } /**@var Foo */ $var->(foo() appears in the autocomplete options) By reading PHPDoc comments the tool knows the type at code time.  However PHP is still a classic OO language, compared with Javascript's prototypical nature, so there's going to be some differences.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoS&P 500 average return is 9.24% per annual. BRK is 20%. That is a BIG margin ;-) — Warren Buffett's amazing run ...
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniI don't buy goods from Myer, and neither would recommend Myer's shares ... — And whilst I'm at it, another #gripe ...  I've found the Boxing Day & New Year sales rather disappointing this year. Pretty much everything I was looking for was not on sale or couldn't be found. At the major department stores, Myer & DJs, the range of items on the floor seems to have diminished.  At least in the kitchenware and home areas.  Nor could I find a light woolen jumper for work (indeed there seems to be a huge lack of woolen jumpers, unlike last year). When I got to Myer on the 27th, all the Christmas stock seemed to have already disappeared! I went on the 27th last year and picked up some goodies for Christmas 2013. At the smaller stores, like Harris Scarfe & Target, the shelves have been filled with all their generic home-brand stuff.  It's all cheaper quality stuff that I don't want! Can we please leave that strategy to be filled by KMart? I must admit to becoming a little dissatisfied with the major retailers treatment of the sales.  Aren't these supposed to be an opportunity to get rid of excess stock?  If instead you're able to apply discounts of anywhere between 40-60% broadly across whole ranges of stuff, that suggests to me that your usual RRP markup is excessive.  It discourages me from shopping at your stores outside of 'sale' time. More and more it seems that my only option is to rely on Ebay and Internet stores. Online it's easier to find a wider selection of stuff, and often it's cheaper (even with wasteful packaging & postage).
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Commented on post by Michael Polonihttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/how-a-tech-glitch-stole-christmas/story-fn91v9q3-1226793970950 — And whilst I'm at it, another #gripe ...  I've found the Boxing Day & New Year sales rather disappointing this year. Pretty much everything I was looking for was not on sale or couldn't be found. At the major department stores, Myer & DJs, the range of items on the floor seems to have diminished.  At least in the kitchenware and home areas.  Nor could I find a light woolen jumper for work (indeed there seems to be a huge lack of woolen jumpers, unlike last year). When I got to Myer on the 27th, all the Christmas stock seemed to have already disappeared! I went on the 27th last year and picked up some goodies for Christmas 2013. At the smaller stores, like Harris Scarfe & Target, the shelves have been filled with all their generic home-brand stuff.  It's all cheaper quality stuff that I don't want! Can we please leave that strategy to be filled by KMart? I must admit to becoming a little dissatisfied with the major retailers treatment of the sales.  Aren't these supposed to be an opportunity to get rid of excess stock?  If instead you're able to apply discounts of anywhere between 40-60% broadly across whole ranges of stuff, that suggests to me that your usual RRP markup is excessive.  It discourages me from shopping at your stores outside of 'sale' time. More and more it seems that my only option is to rely on Ebay and Internet stores. Online it's easier to find a wider selection of stuff, and often it's cheaper (even with wasteful packaging & postage).
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/how-a-tech-glitch-stole-christmas/story-fn91v9q3-1226793970950 — My money is on an over "engineered" non testable VDA "solution" being the root cause of this.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOne of largest e-commerce websites brought down by unexpected customers traffics in China recently. I.T. providers behind this company are IBM and SAP. Both these huge I.T. vendors work for money, NOT for the best interest of their clients. If a company like Myer outsources your whole IT to these leeches, as disasters happen, Myer deserved to be fucked over and over. — My money is on an over "engineered" non testable VDA "solution" being the root cause of this.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Seems you can read Chinese now. Hahaha ... — 来自台湾的作品:熊猫成长史
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Commented on post by Casper CasperGreat article!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniYou little bugger! — The hot weather brought the possum out of its sleepy hollow early on Thursday evening, before the sun had even set!  This large female must have at least one baby in its pouch. #possum  
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFantastic! Watching ABC iView on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 (first generation) now running on Android Kitkat.
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni Fantastic! Watching ABC iView on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 (first generation) now running on Android Kitkat. — We now have iView for Android! #antigripe   http://ausdroid.net/2013/12/17/abc-releases-iview-app-for-android/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoResource boom, property bubble, overvalued Aussie Dollar, manufacturing decline, first Ford closes down by the end of 2016, then Holden in 2017, Australia is exactly in a Dutch disease. — Words of the day - Dutch Disease In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent relationship between the increase in exploitation of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector (or agriculture). The mechanism is that an increase in revenues from natural resources (or inflows of foreign aid) will make a given nation's currency stronger compared to that of other nations (manifest in an exchange rate), resulting in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries to buy, making the manufacturing sector less competitive. While it most often refers to natural resource discovery, it can also refer to "any development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency, including a sharp surge in natural resource prices, foreign assistance, and foreign direct investment".
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShow me the money, show me the money ... — "Real-time payments and transactions?" " We've spent the last three years building the infrastructure for payments, mobile and digital, and in 2014 we'll start reaping the benefits in service delivery, lower costs and reliability," Lisa Gray said. "We can then innovate using the new foundation."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Why do you refuse to envolute to Deano 2.0, being a wine love French Gentleman, rather than staying Deano 1.0 as an Aussie bloke living on beer, and pissing all day? hahaha — “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWon't bother me. I don't have TV. Will skip over these kind trivia ... :-) — Apparently Sydney turned off its analogue TV transmissions today. It's Melbourne's turn in a week's time! #TV  
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson Haven't upgraded on MPB. Testing on company's PC. — Have you guys noticed any performance problems with IntelliJ 13?  I've been noticing that it's interaction with external processes that it's forked is quite slow.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWindows 7 + JDK 1.6.0_45, on a 16GB RAM PC. — Have you guys noticed any performance problems with IntelliJ 13?  I've been noticing that it's interaction with external processes that it's forked is quite slow.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNo! — Have you guys noticed any performance problems with IntelliJ 13?  I've been noticing that it's interaction with external processes that it's forked is quite slow.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat bottle of are you going to open to drink next? — “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Downing +Jarny Choi +Justin Gan  — "The greats always make one last run at greatness" For an outspoken guy with opinions on everything, John McEnroe’s thoughts on tennis are mostly non-controversial. His love of fifth-set tiebreakers and belief that doubles is dead aren’t likely to rile up the tennis masses, nor is his contention that Andy Murray needed a mental break after winning Wimbledon.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell +Dean Budd Remember the good time when you guys as consultants in the won I.T. contracts for big corperates? Hahaha — Quote of the day John Glenn, is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator. When he was asked what it felt like sitting atop the rocket, ready to launch? "I wasn’t scared, but I was up there looking around, and suddenly I realized I was sitting on top of a rocket built by the lowest bidder."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni If hard to find a bargain, just try to pay fair price. — Prepare for a house price plateau Low interest rates are likely to support house prices in the year ahead but subdued household income growth means investors shouldn’t count on them rising much further. Read more - http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/12/4/property/prepare-house-price-plateau
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson +Dean Budd you boys should in YOW! conference today. How good is it? — Git integration in IntelliJ 13, repository on GitHub, with Cherry Pick ... 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson blissful. Also intensively use git integration with Git Stash in company, let me almost get rid of SourceTree. — Git integration in IntelliJ 13, repository on GitHub, with Cherry Pick ... 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Seabook Chen  — Prepare for a house price plateau Low interest rates are likely to support house prices in the year ahead but subdued household income growth means investors shouldn’t count on them rising much further. Read more - http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/12/4/property/prepare-house-price-plateau
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson +Dean Budd  — Git integration in IntelliJ 13, repository on GitHub, with Cherry Pick ... 
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Commented on post by Dean Budd13 is definitely better than 12. Screen is cleaner with more view room on coding. Debugging in Scala is a bit better but still NO way understand how Scala works. Which I quite like it. — Finally I can get rid of this money!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI need figure out how Scala does everything right because still don't understand how it gets things work ... — Finally I can get rid of this money!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI want to know how good 13 is to support Scala debugging. — Finally I can get rid of this money!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe dollar is still the best of all bad currencies. /This says ALL! — One of Krugman's continuing arguments as to why the US' QE has failed to stimulate the economy is that the Fed didn't print enough money.  So we have Japan who printed a hell of a lot more but still failed in it's stimulus goals. Will Keynesians like Krugman change their mind?  Probably not.  I wonder how he'll write this off.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWhy do you still need TV if programs can be delivered over internet, with time shift. — Apparently Sydney turned off its analogue TV transmissions today. It's Melbourne's turn in a week's time! #TV  
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLean towards Gradle over SBT due to the maturity of Gradle, and performance is better. Heard a few colleagues whinged about very slow of SBT. To Marty's concern, I can only say build tool is in its own domain. Build tool doesn't need to run in the SAME JVM, at SAME time as app. App shouldn't care what verhicle drives it into the JVM. Thanks for your responses. — +*** +James Gemmell +Casper Casper +Dean Budd +Martin Paulo SBT is Scala based, Gradle is Groovy based build framework tools. Which one do you recommend to build Scala apps. And why? SBT is still Ivy managed dependency which can be problematic when need "-SNAPSHOT" mechanism support. However, Gradle has eventually replaced Ivy with its own dependency management code ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd — For all the good things of being a static language
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDynamic languages when you need quick response, e.g. JavaScript, DSL, languages for build tool. For everything else static language. — GWT is out and Angular JS is in
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Martin Paulo Mark Bayley's article also mentioned in ABC evening program - The Business. APM's Andrew Wilson is getting his "fame" now. — HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Commented on post by Dean BuddPlayed Nexus 5 today. It's a good phone. But two things I am not big of. One is screen is a big smaller, even in my small hands. Another is software buttons, making the screen even smaller. Better wait for next Nexus, or next after next Nexus ... — So, +Terrence Miao, first impressions of the Nexus 5. Very slick indeed, especially coming from a Galaxy S3 Very nice to hold with the rubberised back. Bit of a fingerprint magnet though. Quite light. Dunno about battery yet. Some nice tweaks to the UI as compared to a Nexus 4. A couple of things I miss from the Galaxy. So far, very good.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Seabook Chen +Tom TANG — Flowplayer is an Open Source streaming video player written in JavaScript and Flash, which can be embedded within web pages. It can play flash video. Some of the features include a high level of customization possibilities, JavaScript API, plug-in architecture and support for various streaming servers.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddJava used to be a good choice in middle ware because its match in haven with XML, and can run on any hardware.  Not the only choice any more. New project, rewritting a legacy Java app, I'm pushing development team code unit test in Scala. — GWT is out and Angular JS is in
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBuy bank shares! Buy more bloody bank shares!!! — HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWondering what the assertions are pass or fail this exam? Or just enjoy fondling someone's bottom? — Patrick best do his best to stay out of prison! HAHAHA
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell safeguard is one issue, new problem like how do you trace and audit BitCoin in the cyber world? — NO sympathy at all. Bitcoin has NO Australian government backed deposit guarantee. Losers deserve to lose as they risk the secure of the currency.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperThough i totally don't understand, it still looks sexy.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Downing  — Dead Spin Nadal's in London playing in the ATP World Tour Finals 2013, where this multiple-exposure picture was taken. We now can see the shift from "okay, toss it up gently" to "NOW MURDER THAT THING!" moment to moment. 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMoney saved if you didn't buy the life insurance for this incident. Haha — GOCE has plunged on Earth. No one hurt. Human beings are saved. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ferrari-space-goce-satellite-crashes-2783519
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell  — GOCE has plunged on Earth. No one hurt. Human beings are saved. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ferrari-space-goce-satellite-crashes-2783519
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell like to see there is a digital currency helping liquidation in international currency market and encouraging global trade. Travellers won't have to pay 1% fat margin currency exchange cost if they have to swap home money to U.S. dollars. Still have high suspicious on BitCoin, unless several centrals banks could back it as SAME as legal currency standard. For now, I can see BitCoin has NO intrinsic value, except being a speculative vehicle.     http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/ Oops ... — NO sympathy at all. Bitcoin has NO Australian government backed deposit guarantee. Losers deserve to lose as they risk the secure of the currency.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBitcoin, a stateless currency, is across between a dangerous irritant and a bad joke. — NO sympathy at all. Bitcoin has NO Australian government backed deposit guarantee. Losers deserve to lose as they risk the secure of the currency.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd FYI — Nexus 5 Repairability Score: 8 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd +Oleg Kiorsak The TRUE cost in Google Play Store is $449. Deano, you are misleading the public again. Hahaha — So, +Terrence Miao, first impressions of the Nexus 5. Very slick indeed, especially coming from a Galaxy S3 Very nice to hold with the rubberised back. Bit of a fingerprint magnet though. Quite light. Dunno about battery yet. Some nice tweaks to the UI as compared to a Nexus 4. A couple of things I miss from the Galaxy. So far, very good.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThinking to move to Nexus my next phone. Galaxy is overall good, but don't like a lot unnecessary applications Samsung added in, and impossible to upgrade if phone is rooted. — So, +Terrence Miao, first impressions of the Nexus 5. Very slick indeed, especially coming from a Galaxy S3 Very nice to hold with the rubberised back. Bit of a fingerprint magnet though. Quite light. Dunno about battery yet. Some nice tweaks to the UI as compared to a Nexus 4. A couple of things I miss from the Galaxy. So far, very good.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHas it arrived? Where is your product reviews? How good is Kitkat? — It's here...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoing to integrate browserstack with Jenkins CI runs all Selenium test cases coded in Java or Geb coded in Groovy. Force you make test cases AUTOMATIC. — Live, Web-Based Browser Testing - Instant access to all desktop and mobile browsers. Say goodbye to your setup of virtual machines and devices. +Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOMG! my eyes, my eyes! — seDUCATIve vs. MANigale - Beauty vs. Blokes So, when we saw Portland-based Ducati dealer MotoCorsa do a photo shoot with a lovely lady named Kylie and a Ducati 1199 Panigale, we passed on running the photos. Then something interesting happened: MotoCorsa did a follow-up photo shoot, this time with men from around the shop, recreating the shots from the photo shoot with Kylie. Perhaps not the most flattering photos we’ve ever seen, it is however a delicious role-reversal, not to mention showing some good humor from the gentlemen involved. Apparently a successful ad campaign in the motorcycle industry doesn’t have to be all Miracle Bras and ass cheeks…well, at least not in the traditional sense. Who knew? Read more: http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/banter/photos-ducati-1199-panigale-moto-corsa-seducative-manigale/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry +Michael Poloni Mike, I'm still learning these tools ... — Technique DevOps applies traditional programming techniques to system administration tasks. “It’s just treating IT operations as a software development problem.” "Why people end up both hating and loving tools like Chef and Puppet. They're complicated and sometimes maddeningly unforgiving, but they bring a needed discipline to maintaining all of those servers we bought. We created them with that cloud magic, and now we need some cloud sauce to pour over them to keep that magic alive." Puppet vs. Chef – The Battle Wages On http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/puppet-or-chef-the-configuration-management-dilemma-215279 https://www.scriptrock.com/blog/puppet-vs-chef-battle-wages/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper A few teams down here start using Trello after they discarded JIRA. I still prefer Leankit tipped by Deano. — Atlassian JIRA, the insanely complicated maze
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoApple doesn't make hardware and assembly. All Apple's products are made by someone else. Apple is a design and marketing company indeed. — New iWatch concept
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoJust like a wrist band. Not very girly thing at all ... — New iWatch concept
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonScience is a complicated and lengthy approach. Other like flatulence tax is a simpler and w quicker problem solver. +Dean Budd Deano fully agrees with me on this ... hahaha
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne of the most impressed Apple showcases can offer! — Design Is A Matter of Taste 13" Retina MacBook Pro, Mac "The Rubbish Bin" Pro, iPad Mini Retina. New Mac OS Mavericks, iWork, iLife all FREE.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFirst came across this article on the train, then read again after +Kieran Simpson posted it on G+. Now third read after start learning Scala ...  — An essential part of running web services in the modern world - Concurrency is more important than ever Scala, from its first draft of design, is to let you write concurrent code, and extremely fast concurrent code.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhat is the URL? Can't wait to play the game during work hours now!!! — Best Internal Server Error Page ever!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAs same as Nova launcher - customised bottom screen. — iOS 7 like theme on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd please let me know how tasty ElasticSearch is. Cheers — Solr vs Elastic Search?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson +Dean Budd still having a lot fun with JIRA? — Atlassian JIRA, the insanely complicated maze
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIssue types, workflows, screens, fields, what the hell are they and how the hell can they work together? — Atlassian JIRA, the insanely complicated maze
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNot any more after Groovy on Grails. It's really no need to re-invent wheel. — I keep saying that the JVM isn't going anywhere even if Java becomes less popular. I'd be interested in Scala peoples experiences doing things like webapps or RESTful services.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonScala, Groovy, Clojure ALL run in JVM. Ruby is only a fad. Game over. — I keep saying that the JVM isn't going anywhere even if Java becomes less popular. I'd be interested in Scala peoples experiences doing things like webapps or RESTful services.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak good arguments Oleg. Need re-read and think over your post. Your and Deano posts keep my brain busy ... — Why Scala? Are you ready all in betting on Scala? James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, described Scala as a possible successor to Java. Scala can compete directly with Java, and give it a run for its money on almost all aspects. It can't compete in popularity at the moment to Java. Of course, the lack of a strong corporate backing may hinder its acceptance on corporate environments. However, who else do you reckon could be the next corporate language for large business, Groovy, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, or even old Javascript?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd takes a few hours, if not a few days, your answer makes sense to me Deano! Need to chew the cud, word by word you write. Hahaha — Why Scala? Are you ready all in betting on Scala? James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, described Scala as a possible successor to Java. Scala can compete directly with Java, and give it a run for its money on almost all aspects. It can't compete in popularity at the moment to Java. Of course, the lack of a strong corporate backing may hinder its acceptance on corporate environments. However, who else do you reckon could be the next corporate language for large business, Groovy, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, or even old Javascript?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInherited OO plus added-on functional programming thingy, though not a pure functional language but a compromised Scala mayb, can be understood and accepted by business world ... — Why Scala? Are you ready all in betting on Scala? James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, described Scala as a possible successor to Java. Scala can compete directly with Java, and give it a run for its money on almost all aspects. It can't compete in popularity at the moment to Java. Of course, the lack of a strong corporate backing may hinder its acceptance on corporate environments. However, who else do you reckon could be the next corporate language for large business, Groovy, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, or even old Javascript?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhen you anticipate a different kind of software evolution: Object-oriented languages are good when you have a fixed set of operations on things, and as your code evolves, you primarily add new things. This can be accomplished by adding new classes which implement existing methods, and the existing classes are left alone. Functional languages are good when you have a fixed set of things, and as your code evolves, you primarily add new operations on existing things. This can be accomplished by adding new functions which compute with existing data types, and the existing functions are left alone. Read more - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078978/functional-programming-vs-object-oriented-programming — Why Scala? Are you ready all in betting on Scala? James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, described Scala as a possible successor to Java. Scala can compete directly with Java, and give it a run for its money on almost all aspects. It can't compete in popularity at the moment to Java. Of course, the lack of a strong corporate backing may hinder its acceptance on corporate environments. However, who else do you reckon could be the next corporate language for large business, Groovy, Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, or even old Javascript?
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Commented on post by David MartinAny tips on ownCloud? A very interesting product. — I recently bought my first tablet computer (a Samsung for those that care) and I've been enjoying using it. Having the tablet has made me think about a few things: - I've been using the tablet more than my desktop PC at home. However, that doesn't make my desktop PC any less useful or less important to me. I've reaffirmed my view that the predicted end of the desktop computing era is greatly exagerated. Sure, a larger proportion of the world's web browsing and social networking is being done on mobile devices, but desktops aren't going away. - I've become more concerned about how much Google knows about me. By default, my tablet was configured to share everything with Google (same goes for the apps from Samsung, Facebook, etc). I've used Google as my primary personal email client for years, so add to that my calendar, G+, wireless passwords, locations, photos, chats and more - that is enough to reconstruct a modern person's entire life. So, I've installed  +ownCloud on a server to move at least some of that data off Google. I toyed with also moving my email but figured it is too late anyway - Google already has my data and knows me well - it would a lot of hassle for little gain.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI still like Atlassian's Git Stash. Simple and Clean design. All features are necessary and just good enough ... — +Dean Budd any experience with Rally?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson K, from my last three months as an admin for corp JIRA/Confluence/FishEye, I got a rare chance inside view how JIRA. The more I've learned, the less I like the product. Ambiguous concepts, definitions, inconsistent and not intuitive usage experience, too many features tried to be squeezed into ... all give me a bad taste of Atlassian products. As a JIRA/Wiki end-user, use the product is OK, but become sour when you try to do something "extra". I agree with +Dean Budd Deano that JiRA becomes a process enforce chain rather than a handy tool. — +Dean Budd any experience with Rally?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd see the problem through Deano! — +Dean Budd any experience with Rally?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, you are my man! Developers think I'm on drugs when I tell them their admired Atlassian JIRA is actually a convoluted, hard to understand and difficult to follow application ... — +Dean Budd any experience with Rally?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Thanks Deano. Business keen to ride on the big wagon by sacrificing Atlassian JIRA this time. — +Dean Budd any experience with Rally?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWill Sony PlayStation and MS Xbox worry SteamOS? — Valve enter the console wars. Steam Machine games console gets announced, running Valves new Linux based SteamOS We have designed a high-performance prototype that’s optimized for gaming, for the living room, and for Steam. Of course, it’s also completely upgradable and open.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper +Dean Budd Buzz Launcher is awesome, and it's NOT only a launcher, but I still prefer simple Nova Launcher which offers just-enough features I really need ... — iOS 7 like theme on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSolr may be the weapon of choice when building standard search applications, but Elasticsearch takes it to the next level with an architecture for creating modern realtime search applications. Percolation is an exciting and innovative feature that singlehandedly blows Solr right out of the water. Elasticsearch is scalable, speedy and a dream to integrate with. Adios Solr, it was nice knowing you. http://blog.socialcast.com/realtime-search-solr-vs-elasticsearch/ — Solr vs Elastic Search?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddComments from creator of ElasticSearch Shay Banon: As the creator of ElasticSearch, maybe I can give you some reasoning on why I went ahead and created it in the first place :). Using pure Lucene is challenging. There are many things that you need to take care for if you want it to really perform well, and also, its a library, so no distributed support, its just an embedded Java library that you need to maintain. In terms of Lucene usability, way back when (almost 6 years now), I created Compass. Its aim was to simplify using Lucene and make everyday Lucene simpler. What I came across time and time again is the requirement to be able to have Compass distributed. I started to work on it from within Compass, by integrating with data grid solutions like GigaSpaces, Coherence and Terracotta, but its not enough. At its core, a distributed Lucene solution needs to be sharded. Also, with the advancement of HTTP and JSON as ubiquitous APIs, it means that a solution that many different systems with different languages can easily be used. This is why I went ahead and created ElasticSearch. It has a very advance distributed model, speaks JSON natively, and exposes many advance search features, all seamlessly expressed through JSON DSL. Solr is also a solution for exposing an indexing/search server over HTTP, but I would argue that ElasticSearch provides a much superior distributed model and ease of use (though currently lacking on some of the search features, but not for long, and in any case, the plan is to get all Compass features into ElasticSearch). Of course, I am biased, since I created ElasticSearch, so you might need to check for yourself. As for Sphinx, I have not used it, so I can't comment. What I can refer you is to this thread at Sphinx forum which I think proves the superior distributed model of ElasticSearch. Of course, ElasticSearch has many more features then just being distributed. It is actually built with cloud in mind. You can check the feature list on the site. — Solr vs Elastic Search?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAfter a quick introduction of Elastic Search, I start preferring it as default back end searching solution, maybe on the greenfield projects. Love its "start small, grow with your growth" approach. — Solr vs Elastic Search?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWe have an application searching residential addresses based on Apache Solr. — Solr vs Elastic Search?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHaha, there is no road back. Like a terrible investment into a "awesome" company. Have to dump more money and time into Git. — If you are struggling with Git, just stick with it and eventually you will see the light at the end of the tunnel ...
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Commented on post by Casper CasperFlat UI +1 — Awesome android launcher! Way better than the Samsung touchwiz
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Commented on post by Casper CasperNova + LMT Launchers on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Perfect. TouchWiz is overkiled. — Awesome android launcher! Way better than the Samsung touchwiz
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyWhen the "well regulated" banks in limbo, you need shadow to accelerate the economy. — https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e1dd9d1642
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell James, it's your call. Hahaha — From informed source, Unico got a not small contract from Telstra, partnering with another company. On LinkedIn Unico HR starts hiring web developers. Meanwhile, two ex-Unicoers have quitted their NAB job and gone back Unico after a few years on the loose.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy people keep waking me up when I fall in sleep during work hour in office? I'm doing the creativity work ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGive your money to me. I can double it in five years ... hahaha — <sigh> Another must buy. I can't keep up.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTotal rubbish. People get wealthy by investing in stock market here are NOT based on rise of stock market, but on the dividends, frank imputation and re-invest these return into the market, a simple compound return. This guy talks about 90% drop in share price, but he doesn't mention about inflation effect and one Aussie dollar today is NOT AS SAME AS one dollar ten years ago. Don't know what he is trying to sell. Anyway, I'm on the other side of the moat and waiting for the big market correction - then buy more! — This sounds like a bit of a spruik to me with some truth mixed in.  I'm not denying that if stock prices stay pretty flat for the next couple of decades then you're capital growth strategy is doomed.  I also think there is going to be a crash sometime soon which will wipe off alot off the current prices. However the author neglects the value of dividends.  If you pick up a rock solid company for a bargain price (ie: after a crash) then you might not get a huge pay off for a while but you can keep accumulating through DRP's and franking credits.  Even if you lose capital gain now (within a tolerated amount) by accumulating more shares in a good company eventually the share price will go back up so you can sell. Given Clive's likely to be an MP now the capital gains tax might be even less by the time you get around to selling hahaha Thoughts?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Why it's funny? — Design of the day - Ring Clock Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2411068/Ring-Clock-Calling-time-wrist-watch.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThat's you call Queenslander. Sorry for being sarcastic ... hahaha — Wow!  So if you're a billionaire you can apparently make unsubstantiated claims about a dude's wife on national TV.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf carry on a credit rating, Microsoft is AAA, Nokia is junk. Over. — Quote of the day - Two sinking ships don't make a floating one Microsoft buying Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion today.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is like the Trojan horse Microsoft sent to Nokia. He broke Nokia from inside. Will see whether there are enough water for them to survive. — Quote of the day - Two sinking ships don't make a floating one Microsoft buying Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion today.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGradle is not a build framework, it is a software development management system. And you program in Groovy, not in XML. — With +James Gemmell having a presentation on Gradle from a bloke from Gradleware +Dean Budd
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2012/08/01/smart-branching-with-sourcetree-and-git-flow/ — A successful Git branching model - an elegant mental model that is easy to comprehend and allows team members to develop a shared understanding of the branching and releasing processes. Read more: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAtlassian SourceTree has git-flow built in. Easier to follow and easier to enforce this good practice. — A successful Git branching model - an elegant mental model that is easy to comprehend and allows team members to develop a shared understanding of the branching and releasing processes. Read more: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat will happen if Microsoft and Google win the lawsuit? Will: • U.S. government bankrupt? • lawyers won't stop suing until ALL Barney Obama's pants off? • a large group of baboons is finally called a congress, which is an absolutely offensive word insulting the baboons? — In a big occasion, Microsoft and Google team up to sue U.S. government over NSA spying
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIs it a better approach isolate SQL and NoSQL into their own domain than in the mixture? There isn't such like one size fits all thing in IT. — PostgreSQL is expanding to become the NoSQL choice of SQL databases. Version 9.2 includes the ability to store JSON data with full querying capabilities on the content of the JSON document. Other extensions let the user store and query data in the form of key/value pairs. This lets you take advantage of the underlying storage and transactional capabilities of a time-tested database without being tied to a relational data model. This is ideal for those who want both SQL and NoSQL applications but prefer a single reliable infrastructure that they already know how to support.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBranch earlier and branch often, this is Git's view of the world.  — A successful Git branching model - an elegant mental model that is easy to comprehend and allows team members to develop a shared understanding of the branching and releasing processes. Read more: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson But as a contractor, doesn't mean you lack of ambitions ... ... — Bad news are everywhere.  Sensis asks ALL contractors to leave. NAB has laid off 600 IT jobs. And NAB CIO quits ... Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cuts-600-jobs-report http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cio-quits-report
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson comparing with full time employee who has a career path, as contractor, you are only a resource. This is what my understanding. — Bad news are everywhere.  Sensis asks ALL contractors to leave. NAB has laid off 600 IT jobs. And NAB CIO quits ... Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cuts-600-jobs-report http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cio-quits-report
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPost just lifts its self-ban on hiring, but only for a few developer and tester roles, then soon filled by ex-Sensis staff. — Bad news are everywhere.  Sensis asks ALL contractors to leave. NAB has laid off 600 IT jobs. And NAB CIO quits ... Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cuts-600-jobs-report http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cio-quits-report
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Wonder the reason Dennis leaves. Not the cost of NexGen blown up? That will down $1 per share ... hahaha — Bad news are everywhere.  Sensis asks ALL contractors to leave. NAB has laid off 600 IT jobs. And NAB CIO quits ... Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cuts-600-jobs-report http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2013/8/29/financial-services/nab-cio-quits-report
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni In order to get jobs done quickly, it doesn't matter whether it's honey or poison I will take it ... — Super Putty - Time to have a decent Terminal • Integrated with Putty. You can have one-click log-on the hosts if set up correct security key exchange • Free Tab management, in Windows • Integrated with Cygwin mintty. Still give you FULL Cygwin running environment just like open a Cygwin Terminal  Download more: https://code.google.com/p/superputty/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dale Wu — Project Estimations This is a side project I led a small team developed for business without fund, without resources, without environment but on passion. The application is to give business a visual view how project budget planned and real cost spent on. Back to technology it's developed on Grails 2.x framework; Google Charts to display visual graphical charts and tables; jQuery as main JavaScript lib; Twitter Bootstrap for UI; H2 database replaces bloody Oracle and MySQL as the persistent solution.  There is nothing particular if don't drill down to the design. Google Charts is good choice. It's all in JS. But shortcoming is you have to generate charts and tables in Google Cloud.  In a self-contained application and the firewall I.T. Security Nazi set up for you this is just a nightmare. So have to break Google Charts' JS library to make it run locally. This is how harckering culture about. You alway tune your application to its best. Twitter Bootstrap helps us to get ride of major UI issues from developers. Spending less time on HTML and CSS make us concentrate more on codes adding more value to business. Also Bootstrap works well on mobile device. Basically, you develop UI, that UI could come across web and mobile without changing. I feel it's a much better solution than jQuery Mobile. H2 in-memory-database boosts whole application performance. Moreover, you have ALL dependency built into one war file. No other outside domain dependency. You can deploy war into Tomcat or heavier WebLogic. For test framework, we adapt Spock, a unit testing, BDD style framework for Grails; Geb, a functional testing, a very Groovy browser automation, also BDD style framework as web, acceptance testing solution. At the end, we add flare - Instant Search into the app. In project and estimates list (hundred of them) pages, you type in the search box, every keyup event will query the backend and send the fuzzy search result back (Approximate String Matching). Just like Google Instant Search. A small but manageable project, Grails and a lot fun!
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakiPhone 5s, already out of fashion before release. Who care? — more reasons to buy more iphones more often... http://www.imore.com/gold-iphone-5s
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDemo - http://webrtc-showcase.terrencemiao.cloudbees.net/   — WebRTC and Node are simply a perfect fit for one another, for both share the same goal of making the real-time web a reality, and a relatively easy-to-implement one at that.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Paulo +Seabook Chen  — WebRTC and Node are simply a perfect fit for one another, for both share the same goal of making the real-time web a reality, and a relatively easy-to-implement one at that.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIt's OK if you don't understand what he is talking about. — WebRTC and Node are simply a perfect fit for one another, for both share the same goal of making the real-time web a reality, and a relatively easy-to-implement one at that.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI.T. gave the world Larry Ellison just like America gave the world George W. Bush. Game over ... ... — There is NO way Larry Ellison's big mouth can shut up. Let's catch up his latest zingers. "I think what Google did was absolutely evil." "Get me the name of that pharmacist, SAP must be on drugs." "I was tempted to shoot Craig Conway, the head of PeopleSoft." "You can check in SalesForce, but you can't check out." "The U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) electronic surveillance programs are absolutely essential" because CIA runs a lot Oracle database. Finally, something insightful "There are a lot of talented people in Apple, but Steve is irreplaceable."
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Commented on post by Dean BuddShould lion bark as well? Hahaha
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWorks on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 - CyanogenMod. Like the animation effect in transfer money page. Don't think have a customised loader on Note 2.  — Re: +Terrence Miao s NAB "need no humans" link USaver Ultra is an interesting product.  The UBank Smartphone apps support it so when it goes live people can do BPay via the apps.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni You are too smart and Qi pad is too dumb man! — Only $29 with FREE shipping
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCan find the closest ATM, 451m from my place. But can't type in Login Email and Password. Input fields seem disabled. Other buttons are un-clickable.  I'm on rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Come on! — Re: +Terrence Miao s NAB "need no humans" link USaver Ultra is an interesting product.  The UBank Smartphone apps support it so when it goes live people can do BPay via the apps.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen no issue for me so far with Nova Launcher — When you get annoying "Unfortunately TouchWiz home has stopped" again and again on your Samsung Galaxy, it's time to replace with Nova Launcher. Smaller, cleaner and faster. Your time saved, phone battery saved as well. Next to do is to install original, unmodified Android. Samsung is still a hardware company ... ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI usually don't put ad in post. But if there is a bargain, I can become someones who would buy everything desperately they want no matter how depressed they are ... ... Hahaha  — Only $19 with FREE shipping
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy  — Only $19 with FREE shippng
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYou have 501+ now. — Re: +Terrence Miao s NAB "need no humans" link USaver Ultra is an interesting product.  The UBank Smartphone apps support it so when it goes live people can do BPay via the apps.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI already have USaver account opened in UBank. I could be the first customer testing this $1.1 billion project. Hahaha — Re: +Terrence Miao s NAB "need no humans" link USaver Ultra is an interesting product.  The UBank Smartphone apps support it so when it goes live people can do BPay via the apps.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kevin Yi — NAB NextGen hyper bank. 10 years transformation push. $1.1 billion cost. Bank account can be opened and approved without staff ... ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIs that all I.T. about, automation? No human interventions? Is that ALL customers and slaveholders can get after spend $1.1 billion? — NAB NextGen hyper bank. 10 years transformation push. $1.1 billion cost. Bank account can be opened and approved without staff ... ...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+James Gemmell Interesting. Soon someone will find out whether Telstra is even worse than IBM. Hahaha. — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIs this what you are doing - drawing during work hours? Hahaha — Monday's are good again!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell I'm reading SI vs. Camel article now. Someone says it's because of fluent API, but will dig out more. Camel like takes the momentum right now. — From informed source, Apache Camel edges over Spring Integration in one messaging routing and enrichment project in my area. Deano and J, you know more about these kind putting A and B together things. Do you know why Camel wins over?
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson A few colleagues gave DiUS big thumb up for a couple projects DiUS developed. Almost all of them are really pissed off for the majority developers DWS and SMS sent here. Don't tread your own reputation! — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddOne project in my area to process barcode messages adapts Apache Camel over Spring Integration.  SAP, Tibco and a lot other applications use barcode message. Very complicated Integratin environment here. DiUS who leads project development made architectural decision on solution. This is the first project here has the Apache Camel approach.  I talked to developers in project. It seems they are quite happy with the performance and result. Here we go. There will more to come. — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson I suspect Aussie's big 4 pillars dare to ban IBM, Oracle and Accenture in their I.T. Big banks have to hire and use big vendors. My former colleague who is working in UBank project now told me Oracle is NOT going to offer NAB a simple solution. Oracle is trying, very hard, to pack ALL the products Oracle  has  and sell them to NAB. So that's why you can't see a "simple" bank application. There are about more 10 Oracle products just in UBank project. According to him, Oracle will develop Ubank app. IBM will do the application support work after development is done. This is how big bank works with big vendors. On ALL shareholders fucking money.   — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is private and confidential post. The information is not, and has not been, reasonably obtainable without the consent by other persons by use of legitimate other than discovery based on a showing of special need in a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding. Except Google and U.S. government ... ... — From informed source, Apache Camel edges over Spring Integration in one messaging routing and enrichment project in my area. Deano and J, you know more about these kind putting A and B together things. Do you know why Camel wins over?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddVegeterians win! — Can't wait to feed the family on this!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Gleeson G+ let you meet more geeks than make more "friends" on FB. I always come to think G+ along with other Google products e.g. GMail and Google Maps are sort of my sons. Of course, G+ is not my favourite one. Hahaha   — Vote Labor and Kevin Rudd, that is the only way could drive Malcolm Turnbull to the Prime Minister-ship
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Gleeson Usually I don't comment on Facebook after read a few your posts on coming Election.  — Vote Labor and Kevin Rudd, that is the only way could drive Malcolm Turnbull to the Prime Minister-ship
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonVagrant supports provision on AWS. Hmmm, interesting ... — I hope they include Vagrant support in IntelliJ 13 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-15874
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAnyone could explain how politics work in Australia? I just can't get it. Hahaha — Vote Labor and Kevin Rudd, that is the only way could drive Malcolm Turnbull to the Prime Minister-ship
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson will let you know later in a very private conversation ... — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddVery informative post Deano. I have to re-read it again after back home. If TU wants developers make decision how to implement the system and get rid of Fusion, I will consider move back and work on a green pasture project. BTW, one of my former colleagues is in NAB working on UBank project as middle-ware architect. You just can't believe how many hardware used just to run WebLogic. That all my money. — My little birds have told me Transurban have been strongly advised to ditch Fusion and go with an Open Source solution...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Lend it to me and I can tell what to do with it. "Hi mate, can you pass that screwdriver to me?" — Got mine today... will try and have a muck around tonight.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAfter 5 minutes introduction of Leap Motion to my colleague, he jumped on the web site order one himself immediately. BTW, whet is your blanket like coverage reviews of this tiny device? — Got mine today... will try and have a muck around tonight.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson Economy downturn has shown burning sign to those who "enjoy" carrying on more debts - you loss the freedom of having more options for your career and lifestyle. — Time to buy up right boys^^^
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLow interest rate stimulates the market in short term, knee jerk reaction. If this economic explanation still too hard to understand for +Dean Budd Deano, let me put in this way. Ahem, low interest is like Viagra taken by old man. How long will it can last is the question. Get it? — Time to buy up right boys^^^
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Casper Casper not only server handles the load, but also better let cloud to manage ALL server side tasks. Only drawback is need Internet connection. This makes IT security Nazi in big Corp nervous ... — +Dean Budd and +Terrence Miao might find this useful
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson I noticed bootstrap when I worked on a fancy file upload feature. Another feature I keen it is it works side-by-side with jQuery and jQuery UI. UI bootstrap is an interesting project. I will wait for bit longer to see how it works with other JS projects.  — Bootstrap - Sleek, contemporary, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development • JavaScript + CSS • jQuery support built-in • Light weight • Twitter like style • Unified Interface and experience through from Desktop browsers to Mobile browsers, from Chrome to Firefox, Safari, IE • Easily integrated with other framework, e.g., Grails and Ruby On Rails • many many more ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGreat post! I reckon that mobile devices is reaching to its hardware limitation. Better improvement is in software. That's I'm looking forward to Android 5.0, which should be an optimised release, making Android run smoothly on a less powerful hardware. That's the same goal like Linux. Modern hardware are already good enough. Another thought, JavaScript should be able to access hardware acceleration as well. — +Dean Budd and +Terrence Miao might find this useful
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCan use it to build business app. I like its cross-platform, cross-browser, cross-device compatibility. — Bootstrap - Sleek, contemporary, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development • JavaScript + CSS • jQuery support built-in • Light weight • Twitter like style • Unified Interface and experience through from Desktop browsers to Mobile browsers, from Chrome to Firefox, Safari, IE • Easily integrated with other framework, e.g., Grails and Ruby On Rails • many many more ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWow, Confidence Slider. That's now for something completely different! Hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI had been in an over three hours planning session trying to cover every detail in the hidden corners. Result and code quality didn't seem better after this long session. Someone just enjoys talking, no sense and meaningful talking but bullshitting. Scrum master should shut up this kind filibusters immediately.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd say something Deano. This is private and business confidential post. Hahaha ... — Is this your future IT development infrastructure? All run in Amazon Cloud. Plus Amazon S3 for static content and storage and Puppet as Configuration Management?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHi Notes, haven't seen you for a while ... Hahaha — Quote of the day - “Getting information from the Internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant.” -- Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Are we on the SAME boat this time Deano? Haha — Introduce Google Charts Backed by Google, it's Open Sources, JavaScripts, can become very sophisticated, plenty of examples and forever FREE ... Read more:  https://developers.google.com/chart/ http://ctoinsights.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/top-chart-libraries/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYep, have found Sydney now. — First time ever I deploy and run Java Spring applications on Tomcat + MySQL combo in Amazon cloud, single node, 1GB RAM, 8GB disk. Actually the cloud on the top of sky of Arizona, West of United States. So impressed with the high performance and snappy response with the applications in cloud than the SAME applications farming on an ISP clusters Down-Under. Cloud here we go ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhy can't Amazon find where I come from? My IP is in Telstra. — First time ever I deploy and run Java Spring applications on Tomcat + MySQL combo in Amazon cloud, single node, 1GB RAM, 8GB disk. Actually the cloud on the top of sky of Arizona, West of United States. So impressed with the high performance and snappy response with the applications in cloud than the SAME applications farming on an ISP clusters Down-Under. Cloud here we go ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd That's so low priority so insignificant requirement can be put down under the need of excretion ... hahaha — Maslow's hierarchy of needs - a pyramid with the more basic needs at the bottom Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak when launch instance, network available only on Arizona and other western suburbs in United States. — First time ever I deploy and run Java Spring applications on Tomcat + MySQL combo in Amazon cloud, single node, 1GB RAM, 8GB disk. Actually the cloud on the top of sky of Arizona, West of United States. So impressed with the high performance and snappy response with the applications in cloud than the SAME applications farming on an ISP clusters Down-Under. Cloud here we go ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Don't know. When I offered to pick up a cloud, it's blue sky over Sydney ... — First time ever I deploy and run Java Spring applications on Tomcat + MySQL combo in Amazon cloud, single node, 1GB RAM, 8GB disk. Actually the cloud on the top of sky of Arizona, West of United States. So impressed with the high performance and snappy response with the applications in cloud than the SAME applications farming on an ISP clusters Down-Under. Cloud here we go ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAre you an UBank home loan customer? I bumped into a firmer colleagues today who is currently working for UBank middle-ware solution. Better I should buy more NAB shares because they could make you their customer. Haha — Love this ad.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyI don't understand how this work but it sounds awesome. — http://gizmodo.com/this-thorium-reactor-has-the-power-of-a-norse-god-649185119
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIs this a security hole, Across applications scripting? — Playing around with HTML5 Web Storage I've figured out you can pass Javascript functions between different Web Applications. Very Cool. Try doing that JMS! hahaha
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni definitely want to go back and pay another visit to New Zealand. Just visiting, maybe canoeing, but definitely not swimming. My insurance company advices me so. Haha. — Beautiful New Zealand Read more: http://www.backpackingmatt.com/the-7-most-stunning-lakes-in-new-zealand/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"You are a batch of hopeless conservatives", as Labor encumber deputy leader Anthony Albanses says. Hahaha ... — Quote of the day - "In 2007 you voted for Kevin and got Julia. In 2010 you voted for Julia and got Kevin. If you vote for the Labor Party in 2013, who knows who you'll end up with?" Dear Tony Abbott, some people vote for Labor is because not to be end up with you become Prime Minister of this country. Get it?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne of my former colleagues has been absent for any level elections in this country for many years because he dislike hypocrite politicians. His reason to Australian Electoral Commission is that his religion forbids him to vote on Sunday. He was out of hook and fine every time. He is currently working in London, drinking beer, making big money. He still doesn't vote. — Quote of the day - "In 2007 you voted for Kevin and got Julia. In 2010 you voted for Julia and got Kevin. If you vote for the Labor Party in 2013, who knows who you'll end up with?" Dear Tony Abbott, some people vote for Labor is because not to be end up with you become Prime Minister of this country. Get it?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDemocracy cost, and Democracy doesn't mean you could have more choice.  "Recycled" Rudd, or "Mad Monk" Abbott, which is less evil one? It's the agony of choice ... — Quote of the day - "In 2007 you voted for Kevin and got Julia. In 2010 you voted for Julia and got Kevin. If you vote for the Labor Party in 2013, who knows who you'll end up with?" Dear Tony Abbott, some people vote for Labor is because not to be end up with you become Prime Minister of this country. Get it?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoStop arguing. It's official now that Kiwi has more beautiful lakes than Down-Under. — Beautiful New Zealand Read more: http://www.backpackingmatt.com/the-7-most-stunning-lakes-in-new-zealand/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBroken link - Page Not Found — There's a new Architectural Pattern emerging that I hear quite a few things about... It's called Micro Services.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne of my current Post colleagues who worked in ANZ FX before told me, FX teams in two banks NAB and ANZ knowing each other very well, they even party together. This is weird. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHave already seen it, used it, tested it. Already happy with it when need a on-the-fly performance monitoring tool for apps run in JVM.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNext on wish list, latest Android could run on Pi. — Someone beat me and +Terrence Miao to it :p
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGreat! No, Alven didn't mention that. But it's the most interesting story to take a support call from Paris. Hahaha. Talk more later. Do come to the catch-up lunch next time with Mr. J +James Gemmell — Didn't you work on this +Bryan Murphy?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWelcome back home Bryan. Bumped into Alven on the train this morning knowing that you will show up in office today. How is your holiday in Europe? — Didn't you work on this +Bryan Murphy?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"PRISM demonstrates that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age." Maybe that is why majority in U.S. don't trust their government, pollies and President. — What Does Your Signature Say About Your Personality Jack Lew, the coming U.S. Treasury Secretary, his signature is going to appear on US currency printed during their tenure. Here is the mock-up of a 2013 dollar bills when Jack Lew dents his personality on the greenback.  Jack Lew’s "fascinating" signature may grace dollar bills by appending another 8 zeros to national debt of the United States.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson That is my way to fight against internet abusers. Posts and comments must be neutral, well balanced with mutual respect, diplomatic and political correct, more important, can be scrutinised in public ... Your posts won't be safer by making them private. Big brother and U.S. government are watching every post you take. Muwahahaha, muwahahaha, muwahahaha — What Does Your Signature Say About Your Personality Jack Lew, the coming U.S. Treasury Secretary, his signature is going to appear on US currency printed during their tenure. Here is the mock-up of a 2013 dollar bills when Jack Lew dents his personality on the greenback.  Jack Lew’s "fascinating" signature may grace dollar bills by appending another 8 zeros to national debt of the United States.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniYou shouldn't publish this great article in front of me, if I didn't play tennis in this beautiful sunny Winter afternoon. I have to post it again! Erh ... — Here's an interesting read about the sharemarket: http://www.theage.com.au/business/markets/twenty-truths-about-the-sharemarket-20130621-2ooa4.html Not sure whether to lol or cry at this one: The only effortless way to get rich is to be born rich. The problem is you only get one shot at it and people seemingly far less capable than yourself always seem to succeed at it
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, you?! Hahahaha ... — What Does Your Signature Say About Your Personality Jack Lew, the coming U.S. Treasury Secretary, his signature is going to appear on US currency printed during their tenure. Here is the mock-up of a 2013 dollar bills when Jack Lew dents his personality on the greenback.  Jack Lew’s "fascinating" signature may grace dollar bills by appending another 8 zeros to national debt of the United States.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonFrom informed source, actually it's from almighty Mr. J +James Gemmell Big Ben Price is working on Ultranet project at the moment, in CSG (now NEC) building in city.  Really like to know what Ben is doing at moment. Maybe Bryan will join back Ultranet project after he back from his holiday. Hahaha, such a small world ... — Didn't you work on this +Bryan Murphy?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIntelliJ supposed to have ALL features in WebStorm. — Watch the screencast +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao I hope IntelliJ gets these features after Webstorm 7 is released.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMe too, me too ;-) — Didn't you work on this +Bryan Murphy?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Say something Deano, please ... — The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js There are huge advantages to using a uniform language throughout your stack. In plain text English, all web based applications, should be and only be written in one uniform language, i.e., JavaScript ... 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddImpossible?! Show me the codes!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhere is the original source of this post Deano? Thanks. — Test Driven Development Principles, Smells and Patterns
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd that's a lesson developer shouldn't write a website in Perl - the most destructive computer language you could count. Hahaha ... — Your email address, should be like your private part, not showing to everyone. However, it seems more and more websites ask your email for registration and login, this is where SPAM Gourmet comes to help ... • Create unlimited disposable email addresses that automatically expire after 1-20 messages. • More fuel can be added manually to refill a Spamgourmet address that has run out of messages. • Spamgourmet aliases are created by using them. • Abuse can be prevented by requiring certain words in the new address, or even a password. • Reply address masking replaces your real email address with the appropriate alias when in replies. • Trusted senders or domains can always send mail through any alias (even expired ones). • An alias can be assigned an exclusive sender that can always send mail through it.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHahaha, suckers. Time to buy more! — Stock up and down but the only that matters is on selling day After almost 6 months roller coaster, stock price  was roaring higher and higher. Now, ASX 200 is back to the level of its beginning of the year 2013.  
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI like the result makes my mouth water full each time search on Google. Homer: hmmmmm ... hippo ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBig design up front, Big bang integration, Big waterfall deployment. — Kaizen (改善), Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis sould be titled Lean Software Development Principle 7: ... — Lean Software Development Principle 7 : Optimise the Whole
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI respect Toyota not because Toyota makes average and boring cars, but because it makes high quality cars. Its quality control, resource efficiency and cost saving are always among the industry the best. — Lean Software Development Principle 6 : Respect People
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDecisions are made based on facts, but not on forecasts. This is the golden rule for successful software development and investment!  — Lean Software Development Principle 3 : Create Knowledge
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Commented on post by Justin GanGood idea, but will be a long long way to become reality.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Already come across Larry Page's statement. In this case, my money goes with "conspiracy" theory than a government or a public company. Anyway, sensitive personal information shouldn't surrendered them to Google. Better to keep them in a private place, like tatto them on arse.  Wahahaha, immediately I feel so smart ... :-P — All your base are belong to us Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in spying program.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniYou have yet had enough exposure in public :-) — It's been a while, so I decided to see how I'm travelling by searching for myself on Google. I thought my name was rare, but apparently not rare enough. Only 5 of the 10 hits on the first page of search results are me!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe job of testing is not to find defects but to prevent them. The worst enemy of software is not defect but duplication. — Lean Software Development Principle 2 : Build Quality In
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson These kind Agile quacks can be everywhere. Heard word "Agile" on local radio show hosted by some "Agile" spruiker; attend a 3-day course and get "Agile" certificate, then lead, sorry mislead an "Agile" project.  No development background required. Previous experience working as a shoe sale person in Myer is good enough. — Lean Software Development Principle One : Build Quality In
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFucking awesome! — Lean Software Development Principle 2 : Build Quality In
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAn "Agile" project drawn the line on sand the first day of iteration zero: Budget never can be compromised. On time delivery is next most critical thing. Code quality, on the contrary, is the least important, can be sacrificed, can be bent to any direction. AFAIK, an successful agile project still can be achievable on reducing resource waste, on not implementing unnecessary features which add no-value to the product, even it's a tight deadline and even it's a budget constrained project. Kindly ask this BSA who holds a Scrum Master certificate and draws the line on the sand what mother fucking agile this is ... — Lean Software Development Principle One : Build Quality In
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+David Martin There is Agile Manifesto, there is also half arsed / half baked Agile Manifesto. Check - http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/ — What is Little a Agile? What is Big A Agile? Why Uncle Bob says “Developers started the Agile movement to get closer to customers not project managers”
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoContinuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen, in Japanese word) — Kaizen (改善), Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhat's the name of this book Deano? — I've started a push to nurture a culture of "Lean Thinking" Scrum will take you only so far. XP will take you a little further. Lean Software Development will gel it all together and take you to the next level. I'm gonna post the Seven Lean Principles (one a day) starting with Lean Software Development Principle One : Eliminate Waste
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBig Design Up Front, Big A Agile Practice, Big Bang Integration, Big Waterfall Deployment. Living in a four Bs software development, this is just brilliant. — What is Little a Agile? What is Big A Agile? Why Uncle Bob says “Developers started the Agile movement to get closer to customers not project managers”
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd why can't you knock drown the physical wall why your are doing software development? — Having lost the battle for using a physical Agile User Story Board and resorting to electronic tools, we've just discovered... Lean Kit Don't get me started on JIRA Trello is great but not quite what you need. Leankit looks really good. We'll be trying it out next Sprint as a replacement for Trello.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson I love built-in index and search feature in IntelliJ — Spent two hours today, helping one colleague, with stand-by support from another colleague to make an legacy Maven project run in STS (Spring Tool Suite, have to down-grade to make it compatible with Maven 2.x). Comparing same project to setup and make it run in IntelliJ in 10 minutes, I'd like to show my respect for the moment and make a tribute to Eclipse and its dog mate STS: Go to hell Eclipse. You make developers live hard, work hard and die hard. After all, it's too damned hard ...
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Commented on post by Alan LuAll done by yourself?!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWhat lens do you use to take these photos? — Autumn colours
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHeard that IntelliJ is used to develop and build new IntelliJ. How could be possible? Chicken or egg, who came first? — Android Studio, just announced in Google I/O 2013, is "shamelessly" based on latest IntelliJ ... Hehe
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Commented on post by Anton+Anton Christie will let you know next time we catch up for lunch. BTW, Tony Loriente is working with me in the same team now. — Hey +Terrence Miao - It was good seeing you the other day.  We should catchup some time....
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Amazon is trying to revive the penny ;-) — Amazon Coins announced - One Amazon Coin is worth one US penny To decentralise central bank, big I.T. companies start printing their own currency ... 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThis release fixed two issues I had with pervious release: SVN proxy authentication with LDAP server; mysterious Spring beans creating failure in one of my projects (work fine in IntelliJ 11). Fully switch to IntelliJ 12 now ... — +Dean Budd The fix for IDEA-94951 might fix your static import issue with TestNG/Hamcrest matchers.  Check out the bug report and see if you still have problems.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni but but there are plenty of fun driving them. This isn't a beauty contest ... — World's Greatest Drag Race 2 Subaru BRZ was just happy to been invited ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFour seat coupe, so narrow room in the second row, totally design fault. Even my friend's dog would refuse to sit on the back seats. Waiting for update version ... — Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ, the cars of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream Toyota 86 GTS Price: $39,858.38 (driveaway, Sydney) Engine: 2.0-litre flat four-cylinder Power: 147kW at 7000rpm Torque: 205Nm at 6600rpm Transmission: 6-speed manual or 6-speed auto 0-100km/h: 7.6 seconds (8.2sec auto) Fuel consumption: 7.8L/100km (7.1 auto) CO2 emissions: 181g/km (164 auto) STAR RATING: 4.5 STARS Subaru BRZ Price: $37,150 (driveaway, national) Engine: 2.0-litre flat four-cylinder Power: 147kW at 7000rpm Torque: 205Nm at 6600rpm Transmission: 6-speed manual or 6-speed auto 0-100km/h: 7.6 seconds (8.2 auto) Fuel consumption: 7.8L/100km (7.1 auto) CO2 emissions: 181g/km (164 auto) STAR RATING: 4.5 STARS Read more: http://www.caradvice.com.au/194555/toyota-86-vs-subaru-brz-comparison-review/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen in my daylight wildest dream ... — Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ, the cars of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream Toyota 86 GTS Price: $39,858.38 (driveaway, Sydney) Engine: 2.0-litre flat four-cylinder Power: 147kW at 7000rpm Torque: 205Nm at 6600rpm Transmission: 6-speed manual or 6-speed auto 0-100km/h: 7.6 seconds (8.2sec auto) Fuel consumption: 7.8L/100km (7.1 auto) CO2 emissions: 181g/km (164 auto) STAR RATING: 4.5 STARS Subaru BRZ Price: $37,150 (driveaway, national) Engine: 2.0-litre flat four-cylinder Power: 147kW at 7000rpm Torque: 205Nm at 6600rpm Transmission: 6-speed manual or 6-speed auto 0-100km/h: 7.6 seconds (8.2 auto) Fuel consumption: 7.8L/100km (7.1 auto) CO2 emissions: 181g/km (164 auto) STAR RATING: 4.5 STARS Read more: http://www.caradvice.com.au/194555/toyota-86-vs-subaru-brz-comparison-review/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe ten smartest words in economic history. — Words of the day - "If money doesn't loosen up, this sucker could go down." -- George W. Bush when he came out in front of the White House during the 2008 credit crisis
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd You forget to clip Memoto to your pets' collars, so Big Brother can enjoy watching dog poo all day and all night. Hahaha ... — Memoto - your automatic life logging camera Memoto has an app and cloud-storage platform to ensure that no experience— no matter how mundane — will go undocumented .. Read more: http://memoto.com/.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLooks likely someone is standing on an emergency wheelchair from a distance, an expensive "wheelchair" but cool. — Chariot Skates Watch more: http://www.chariotskates.com/videos.html 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Good thinking 99!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI found Google keyboard in Android 4.2 is better than Swype, Swype flow and it's free. There are apk can be downloaded and installed on Android 4.x. I reply your post by using Google keyboard. — Swype finally out of beta and on Google Play Store for 99¢ Such a joy to use!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonPollies, stop manipulating the market like the Communists.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Fantastic! Looking forward to your un-box report and product review. — Leap Motion - what can you do with your hands and fingers, naturally ... Read more: https://www.leapmotion.com/
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+James Gemmell I won't call it religion. IntelliJ supportors are a bit like people who are addicted to drugs ... — IntelliJ 12.1.2 +Dean Budd 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson that is the question has an obvious answer ;-) — Work on ANZAC day is patroitism or un-Australian?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I do believe the ability you taste great design and codes is almost as good as you taste great beer. Hahaha ... I will get a chance to have a look NoSQL Distilled book. Cheers. — Learn the lesson from success of Pinterest
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPlease advice how did you do linear scale-up in your project? I'm stuck in the worst nightmare using Oracle database. Help! I can't make to the pub for more beer ... — Learn the lesson from success of Pinterest
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniYum yum yum! — You know what? I make a damn good Sunday roast. #figjam
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLong term projects are more likely achievable in community countries. In Down Under what we have are rollovers and rollovers soon after previous government fell apart. So I still support NBN and carbon scheme. One reason is hard for next government turn the projects around. The first sentence of I were Tony Abbott speech writer is "it's a shame for this great country and people to elect Tony Abbott as their leader." Hahaha — See also http://theage.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/city-roads-crowded-with-solo-drivers-20130414-2htts.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI'm pro free market person. Intervention from government should be as less as possible, unless it's in GFC. Cap on Aussie dollars is a terrible ideas. Financial education on every students in school is better than offering sympathy to the losers. — Maybe I'm a harsh bastard who has little sympathy for people buying into overpriced real estate, but, why oh why should savers be punished for doing the right thing by copping falling interest rates?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBryan's policy will cost tax-payers additional billions and billions dollars. I don't believe any major infrastructure investment could get the money back in this country, based on a small population living in vast area. Things can do like double the petrol price, let Average Joe could buy car but couldn't afford to drive. Meanwhile, enforce businesses let employees work on different shifts. All the half empty train carriages could filled up in non-peak hour. — See also http://theage.drive.com.au/roads-and-traffic/city-roads-crowded-with-solo-drivers-20130414-2htts.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThis is one main reason why I love Aussie Banks stock so so much. Most of their profit come from mortgages. Suckers speculators, losers who followed, but banks always win in the end.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMy bank is opened 24/7, dear ... — Go Solar, Go Fiber. Dump Tony Abbott into the bay. Green Electricity at home with Origin Energy quarterly report: Date period: 1st Jan 2013 to 28th Mar 2013 (87 days) Total usage: 238.936 kWh Solar generation: 728.977 kWh Total Electricity Charges incl. Discounts: $132.23 Total Solar contribution: $225.98 CR Total Amount Due: $93.75 CR
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFat chance. — As Bitcoin is the only global digital currency for the moment, so it bears all the original sin. Cameron Garnham is a 25-year-old from the outer suburbs of Melbourne who lives at home with his mum and dad. Here is the phone interview.   Interviewer: "So how many Bitcoins do you have in your virtual wallet?   Cameron: "Well, I wouldn't ask you how many dollars you have in your bank account ...   Interviewer: "I don't care, I'll tell you." Cameron: "No, no, let's not go there." Cameron is a self-confessed tech geek who's been involved in trading Bitcoins for about three years, which in Bietnamese (a term just made up) makes him an elder statesman.   In that time his only reference point has been seeing the price go from a few bucks to $170. So when asked how high he thought it could go, he said matter-of-fact "It's not inconceivable that it could be $2,000 by the end of the year."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd This is my way to avoid abusing. Who dare that every word they write is recorded, backup and can be used to take legal action against. <Evil laugh>Haha! Haha! Muwhahaha!</Evil laugh> — Wild Ride For Bitcoin As Price Falls 60 Per Cent
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIn U.S. it's called buck, in U.K. is quid, in Canada is loonie, in Down Under is moolah ... On Greenback says "In God We Trust"; on Renminbi has Chairman Mao's portrait as the God bless; on Australian $20 note it says: "This Australian note is legal tender throughout Australia and its territories", and it's signed by the Governor of the Reserve Bank. Both of them are recognizable, acceptable, exchangeable around world. What are Bitcoin and other virtual currency backed and guaranteed?  — Bitcoin explained
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEverything goes up too quickly will fall absolutely quickly as well. — Wild Ride For Bitcoin As Price Falls 60 Per Cent
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA new economy? a new currency? a new decentralized banking? Total fucking bullshit. Bitcoin is just another huge pyramid scheme! — Bitcoin explained
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI'd like prefer Gradle over Gant over a long run because Gradle comes with "battery included". Gradle is like a project management tool, Gant is a pure build tool only. Gradle has more power over Gant. I'd like have a further civilised and intelligent debate with you cool dudes. — Can we get rid of Maven +Dean Budd ;)
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe game that rocketed Nokia phones to the top of the world, as same as Minesweeper did for Windows. — The perfect game of Snake  ...or What Skynet does when it gets bored
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAn automation build tool is also a programming language than poisoned XML. Tick Allow you to code in Groovy, a modern DSL. Tick. Based on Apache ivy, light weighted dependency management framework. Tick. Even had an affair with Spring. Tick. As the Chargé d'affaires for Deano +Dean Budd , I endorse Gradle.  — Can we get rid of Maven +Dean Budd ;)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHad a few very strange and inconsistent behaviors in IntelliJ 12 so I have to keep version 11 runs along side. However, overall 12's experience is very good. — Available +Bryan Murphy in IntelliJ 12.1
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonFinally you can get rid of Xcode. — Finally C and C++ will be treated as first class citizens by JetBrains.  I'm looking forward to this editor.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson3D printers will bring the next revolution in I.T. — Fasicinating stuff.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNext interest rate move is up - http://mobile.news.com.au/realestate/buying/honeymoon-over-for-mortgage-holders-says-shadow-reserve-bank-board/story-fndban6l-1226610491096 — I wonder if in a couple of days the headlines will change.  It's happened before ;)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLet's have a bit complacent overjoys, and go back to office and do the damned work tomorrow. Happy Easter. Holiday is over. — Ratings agency Fitch has confirmed Australia's AAA economic rating, coupled with a "stable" outlook. Fitch said the high rating reflected the fact Australia had built up the capacity to absorb shocks through a combination of low public debt and liberal trade and labour markets, which allowed the economy to adjust during downturns. "Australia has remained one of the strongest performing economies in the AAA universe since the global financial crisis began," the ratings agency said.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Never tried Dragonfly. One thing you need take consideration is market share. Chrome is on the top now around 30%. Opera is less than 1% far behind Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari. For developing website to public access, this is one major fact to make decision. — Chrome As An IDE One thing, only one thing, I couldn't give up Firefox is Firebug. However, after I see this presentation, I reckon it's time to move on. Chrome becomes my development browser.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniTotally shocked. Can't believe it. — I sometimes walk that very footpath to/from work ...  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-28/wall-collapse-in-swanston-street/4600194
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson sorry folks, don't know you are living an ultimate hermit life, like characters in LOTR, only along with yourself in the wilderness now ;-) — +Dean Budd Have you tried Monkey Talk testing tool in any mobile projects? If yes, is it good?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLESS CSS Compiler plugin for IntelliJ - http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin?pr=webide&pluginId=7059 — Why do you hate CSS? Mostly because you don't understand it. LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the server-side (with Node.js and Rhino) or client-side (modern browsers only, i.e., not IE 6). LESS makes you have more fun when you program CSS.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Fantastic! Typical Microsoft FUD. — "Freely you received, freely give." This is an Open Source Gospel in an Intellectual Property church, also the motto of The Pirate Bay.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle Keep could integrate nothing but ALL Google resources and services in its cloud, that I recon is the advantage Google Keep over Evernote. — Google Keep. Is that end of the road of Evernote?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Yes it's not a real Google ring. Because there is not enough leak from a not very leaky company. People outside the company can only use their imagination. BTW, Google is working on its new gadget Google smart watch in its Android development team. No more leaked info and photos, have to guess again! — Google ring offers one hardware password to rule them all Read more: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/google-ring-to-provide-one-hardware-password-to-rule-them-all-20130312/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIf index only on the oversupplied and hard to sell apartment, I can see affordability is improving ... — Spruikers are back out again.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYep, 3D enability for Americans first thing to they want to print on a 3D printer is a gun - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2295283/3D-printing-gunsmiths-make-blueprints-available-free-download-granted-firearms-licence.html — Want to program for a torch? World's first Open Source LED light - HexBright
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat the hell these I.T. juggernauts doing these days? First a pair of fashionable glasses, then a beautiful watch, now a ring try to dominate the world. These "jewelries" are used to be the timeless piece for ladies, but now, they are worn by I.T. nerds, just like supermodel Bar Refaeli appeared on a GoDaddy.com commercial during the Super Bowl, and locked lips with a fat red cheek nerd, very very uncomfortably. — Google ring offers one hardware password to rule them all Read more: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/google-ring-to-provide-one-hardware-password-to-rule-them-all-20130312/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI found that unless you are extremely lucky, it's very hard to beat banks on fixed interest. Almost every fixed interest product has the safety buffer (in case banks bet the wrong way against interest rate), which finally becomes the burden on borrowers.  I still remember one person I know who fixed interest at 9% just before the GFC. — Low interest rate and "good" time to spend in Australia is coming to an end soon Comments by the RBA also suggest that current official cash rates are ‘clearly below normal levels’, and further signs that the next rate move will likely be upwards. Philip Lowe, a Reserve Bank assistant governor predicted that low official interest rates would lead to higher consumer spending, boost consumer sentiment and increase asset (mainly homes) prices.
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Commented on post by Will YuanGood enough but still far away convincing me to upgrade from current Note II. Lack of killer applications, for example let me plug it into an dock and use it as desktop PC replacement in office. — Samsung S4 review, what a superb phone! http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/hands-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-20130315-2g539.html
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniI am more interested in which product will be on the Google chopping board next? Hahaha — Babble babble babble ... http://ausdroid.net/2013/03/19/google-to-unify-communication-finally/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOoops, some "economists" win The Foot in Mouth Palme d'Or Award again. — Low interest rate and "good" time to spend in Australia is coming to an end soon Comments by the RBA also suggest that current official cash rates are ‘clearly below normal levels’, and further signs that the next rate move will likely be upwards. Philip Lowe, a Reserve Bank assistant governor predicted that low official interest rates would lead to higher consumer spending, boost consumer sentiment and increase asset (mainly homes) prices.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGoogle indoor maps full list - http://m.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/google-maps-indoor-venues-20130313-2fz8o.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWho the hell can get this indoor maps work?! Neither it works in QV building! I have the latest Google Maps installed. According to The Australian Financial Review, Google says has no intention to turn the app into a location-based advertising money spinner. Meanwhile, the company also told Computerworld that it has no timeline for an Apple iOS release of this feature.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGigabytes internet makes live Internet TV broadcasting become possible.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNeither works in Flinders station even it has been blessed by Google?! Will try it in QV later.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGreat application rules. Making apple fans dumber at same time. Google Maps is the best application I reckon made by Google over Chrome and Android if it is regarded as app.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniRose and Jack Daniels, why such combination? Any background music? — This weather makes me feel like these roses look.  I'm hoping a drink of something different on the rocks will help me actually get some sleep tonight.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAny updates from onside? "NAB has been progressively rolling out the platform within its UBank online brand and plans to shift the rest of its customer bases onto the new platform over the next three years, starting next year with its personal customers. It hopes to decommission its legacy systems after 2016." Very ambitious plan ... "Clyne says that by the end of the fifth year of the program NAB will have cut $800 million a year from its cost base but in the process will invest more than $1 billion a year. The savings, he said, would be partly offset by higher software amortisation charges, reinvestment and implementation costs." Do most money pay loyalty for Oracle? I need to decide whether keep buying NAB shares or betting on WestPac instead.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI used don't trust articles written by authors from a bad reputation consulting firm like Capegimini, but I will watch closely "fight" between Apache Camel and Spring Integration. — Since the occasional question regarding Camel is thrown out; here's an article that might help.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot only once, I argued and prompted that Wiki should be the first and only place project team, including project lead, business analysts, architects, developers and testers look for information and resources that helpful and useful, not only for your benefit but also for other people involved in the project.  Email and the Microsoft Words and Excel in its attachment is one dimension and a disorganised way keeping the information. The least efficient or no penetration.  Email is dead in next few years is on my wish list. There are a lot better way connect people to communicate than email, for example G+. So Google, watch my mouth and listen to me carefully. I really want you kill Gmail in your thing to do next :-D — Agile in action - Lesson I've learned from business is their agile practice is, basically, keeping everything in email, i.e., Microsoft Outlook; design and functional specs in Microsoft Words; data in Microsoft Excel, and attach the doco and spreadsheet into the email ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Finally I know why Deano hair is gone :-) +Dean Budd the confidential information and non-competition agreement I signed make my lips sealed ;-) — Realize the fact please. Microsoft IE6 is old, is broken, and is crap. Keep supporting and developing applications compatible with this turd is like to make your life NOT worth living ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakHaha, there is no cryptic. Better don't touch and open it, in case of Trojan Horse :-) — +Terrence Miao  got some interesting email in gmail 让阳光,普照你所有的日子;让烛光,照耀你人生之旅。 (中=@共人大代表座位揭秘:政%治局委员坐第二排)在压缩包里. 锡.rar 38K   View   Download   clicking "view translated message" gives Let the sun shine on you all day; candlelight, shine your life journey. (= @ NPC deputies seat Secret: the political% of a member of the Political Bureau of the sitting second row) in compression bag. sounds just as cryptic, but somewhat intriguing/promising... should I download and run it? ;-)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf AngularJS or other MVC JavaScript framework can combine existing widget libraries, I can't provision the point of existing frameworks like Grails and Java mid-tier. ALL web applications can be just written in JavaScript, and talk directly to the services layer in the cloud. — Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side. And then AngularJS came along. And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, any comments? — Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side. And then AngularJS came along. And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGet all your antenna poles up. Hope everything is going well. Talk later.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIt's the government. Government has the power to govern and do anything, know everything they want. Your income, your date of birth and your password ...  I can see the slogan two parties in this year Federal election - "Take it as it comes".  Haha — Sterling effort from the ATO here.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI feel I have had brain washed, damaged, I even feel I didn't use brain at all, I feel I'm a damned fool after using jQuery for so long time without questioning jQuery's design, without asking whether it's still possible to improve jQuery ... — Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side. And then AngularJS came along. And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Code is NOT the design Both are Javascript frameworks. Why AngularJS far over jQuery several blocks away? Design. Design can live without code. But code without design is just shitty code. Code is the live demo, showcase of the design. People maybe don't understand the design, but after see the code most of they can give a judgement how good design is. Design is a matter of taste. You can improve taste over time. Code is the cooked food on table. If you don't like, it's impossible and too late back to kitchen and re-cook the same food again. Game over. — Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side. And then AngularJS came along. And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI haven't seen a Javascript framework, so seamlessly integrated with bloody messy HTML till I see AngularJS example. I haven't seen a Javascript framework makes client-side code so clean, so light, so adaptable, so beautiful, so much so I could officially announce "Java is so dead" ... — Warning: The tech content in this article contains pure magic fucking awesomeness on environmentally friendly steroids For years, web application developers have used DOM manipulation tools like jQuery to control their user interface. Astute developers have taken it to the next level with client-side templating tools like Mustache.js and Handlebars.js to build sophisticated user interfaces on the client side. And then AngularJS came along. And we all realized we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I like your argument very much. But let me get back home and show you an example you're not absolutely right this time - Code is NOT design. Ciao ciao. — Code, in the financial perspective, is more like a liability than an asset. The more code produced, the more liability you have to bear burden, and the more substantial cost of ownership. Successful investment is about having more tangible asset and carrying less liability. So if code is liability, the less code, the better. The best code is NO code all.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe greatest weapon of the Kung Fu master is his mind, not the weapon itself. The greatest application is the design, not the code itself. — Code, in the financial perspective, is more like a liability than an asset. The more code produced, the more liability you have to bear burden, and the more substantial cost of ownership. Successful investment is about having more tangible asset and carrying less liability. So if code is liability, the less code, the better. The best code is NO code all.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe photo and the "faked" Apple, Google stores are genuine like to me. Remember this is happened in China. So many possibilities.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Paulo remember I saw a map of Melbourne, similar to that London map, having all the highlights and characters of the city drawn in an artistic way in a backpackers motel about 15 years ago. I have a quick googling but find nothing except damned Google Maps everywhere. Really missing this piece of art which is inspirating a lifestyle for those who want to live more and fret less ... — London Map drawn from memory and New Simplified Map of London, according to Jeremy Clarkson
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Commented on post by Dean Budd"Size doesn't always matter, it's how you use it" in a sarcastic way. Haha.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIf it's from the Fucking Daily Mail (or Another U.K. Tabloid), or Herald "Horny" Sun. Give a loud laugh when you read them! There is no better stand-up comedians than those "well-educated journalists". Haha
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood job that coalition government who was responsible killed inflation dragon and brought country back into fitness. — Why credit rating that Australia on the top of the world
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni any reference for this PTV data? How does it work? — Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning wouldn't be called lazy. After a hot-water shower and long time missing full size breakfast, checking world stock markets which is another disaster day in Wall Street after Italy election result sending earthquake around the world, I'm ready to go to work before 7am.  But it's too later ... Looking outside of my place, I'm shocked that cars already have been packed up from train station 5 km away up to my doorbell. Good weather condition, rain pouring down which is very good for thirsty garden and run-out-at-bottom water tank, but it's bad for traffic making even worse that everyone wants to rush to the main road in a comfy car. So have to trapped myself at home waiting for traffic a bit easier. Searching for live traffic report and find out that Google Maps already offers this service.  Question raised how the hell Google could manage to do this? Check: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=live+traffic+report+melbourne&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6ad646b5d2ba4df7:0x4045675218ccd90,Melbourne+VIC&gl=au&layer=t&ei=GtorUdmZLYa4iQeYgoHwAg&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAA
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAbsolutely brilliant! Thanks a lot +Dean Budd Deano. This great Google service maybe finally convinces me sacrifice a bit personal privacy to help the community, and bravely expose myself in public. — Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning wouldn't be called lazy. After a hot-water shower and long time missing full size breakfast, checking world stock markets which is another disaster day in Wall Street after Italy election result sending earthquake around the world, I'm ready to go to work before 7am.  But it's too later ... Looking outside of my place, I'm shocked that cars already have been packed up from train station 5 km away up to my doorbell. Good weather condition, rain pouring down which is very good for thirsty garden and run-out-at-bottom water tank, but it's bad for traffic making even worse that everyone wants to rush to the main road in a comfy car. So have to trapped myself at home waiting for traffic a bit easier. Searching for live traffic report and find out that Google Maps already offers this service.  Question raised how the hell Google could manage to do this? Check: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=live+traffic+report+melbourne&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6ad646b5d2ba4df7:0x4045675218ccd90,Melbourne+VIC&gl=au&layer=t&ei=GtorUdmZLYa4iQeYgoHwAg&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAA
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCaught the late train got in office at 11 o'clock. Haven't seen so light traffic on main road in the suburb for a long time except Xmas. — Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning wouldn't be called lazy. After a hot-water shower and long time missing full size breakfast, checking world stock markets which is another disaster day in Wall Street after Italy election result sending earthquake around the world, I'm ready to go to work before 7am.  But it's too later ... Looking outside of my place, I'm shocked that cars already have been packed up from train station 5 km away up to my doorbell. Good weather condition, rain pouring down which is very good for thirsty garden and run-out-at-bottom water tank, but it's bad for traffic making even worse that everyone wants to rush to the main road in a comfy car. So have to trapped myself at home waiting for traffic a bit easier. Searching for live traffic report and find out that Google Maps already offers this service.  Question raised how the hell Google could manage to do this? Check: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=live+traffic+report+melbourne&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6ad646b5d2ba4df7:0x4045675218ccd90,Melbourne+VIC&gl=au&layer=t&ei=GtorUdmZLYa4iQeYgoHwAg&ved=0CDIQ8gEwAA
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThanks for the valuable reference +James Gemmell J. Good spot on the different statistics between BlackRock and McKinsey. Judgement I could make is that U.S. and Australia debt are still very high, which is very very bad. I don't concern too much about private debt as +Kieran Simpson K is trying to figure out. If you could manage well your personal finance, clean up your own backyard, you won't care too much other people's business unless the grass in your garden is aways greener than the other side.  Public debt is totally different, that is everyone's debt. If you live and work in U.S., your contributed personal tax always have to pay back a bit of public debt. High debt prevents any government to adapt more flexible economic policies. Lucky we are in Australia, with reasonably sounding economy management government, relatively less government debt than hard condition U.S. and can't-see-future Japan. Not surprise heard that Britain lose AAA credit rating last week. But it's too bad that news make French happier though France has been striped AAA rating by the same god-damned company Moody :-) — "I'm happy being paid in Australian dollars for the next 10 years," he said, noting that "the Australian economy is being punished for its virtue". AUSTRALIA has joined the CASSH economy and it's good news for inbound investment, according to Blackrock's global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich. He named Canada, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland and Hong Kong as developed countries whose economies had performed well through the global financial crisis. "You can also include New Zealand and Norway but I couldn't work out where to put the letters," joked Mr Koesterich, who ranks those countries alongside lower-cost developing countries as a likely target for global investors. He particularly likes their low gross public debt and the fact in all of them fiscal deficits averaged less than 1 per cent in 2010, as against an average of 7.5 per cent in Europe, the US and Japan. But he's not so keen on the US, he says, because of the likely dampening effects of fiscal drag, where more people are going to find themselves paying higher rates of tax, as their earnings recover, to help reduce the country's massive sovereign debt. "Some of the near-term risks have shifted from Europe to the US," he said, noting the US probably would be "more resilient than the UK but growth in the US may disappoint because of drag". Two area of surprise in the US-based expert's presentation this week were that he didn't expect a bust in the US bond market despite the very low yield of Treasury bonds and he didn't expect the Australian dollar to lose much ground even after the US Federal Reserve stopped its quantitative easing program. "I'm happy being paid in Australian dollars for the next 10 years," he said, noting that "the Australian economy is being punished for its virtue". He said quantitative easing would cease only when the US labour market improved, "and that could be a multi-year process ... say as long as five years". "The Fed's policy is basically unlikely to change until we see an improvement in the global economy and when that happens there will be a limited negative effect on the Australian dollar." He said US Treasury Bonds were and would remain an investment target for central banks and institutions worldwide. "They're tools of monetary policy rather than genuine investments," he said. "Buyers are not really looking for return." He did warn that many markets, including Australia, had sharemarkets that had run hard and that "emerging markets have more compelling valuations". But he's not writing off Australia, not only because of the solid international interest in our equities but also because "Australia's low debt will allow for faster growth in the long term". He said most developed countries would suffer this year from the three Ds: "deleveraging, debt and demographics". Although individual investors in the US had sharply reduced their debt since the GFC, the boom in other debt had undone their good work and left non-financial debt (as household and business debt is called) still standing at more than 250 per cent of GDP, "a scant 2 per cent below its 2009 peak". The ageing population also would be a drag on growth. The good news, however, "is that older people don't borrow as much as younger ones do", thus reducing the risk of potentially inflationary bank lending. Despite the money printing, "monetary aggregates in the US grew very slowly in the last five years" because of low credit creation (lending) by banks. "That and the lack of wage growth in the US because weak labour markets have kept the risk of inflation pretty low," he said. "This is a good time for institutions to reduce their overweights in the US market back to market weight."
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni+Michael Poloni I am reading TheAge and TheAustralian digital version online these days. One thing I don't like is TheAustralian doesn't have all its published articles online. HeraldSun just read its free online version. Even 10 bucks is still too dear for most its rubbish like content. — Fairfax may have just lost another subscriber to News Limited. Here's my choice: The Age for $15 for the year: delivered on weekends, on weekdays you have access via an iPad app;  http://tertiary.theage.com.au/index.php?linkid=104 The Herald Sun for $10 for the year: delivered on weekends, pickup on weekdays;  https://secure.ni.com.au/subscriptions/heraldsun/hwtuni/terms-and-conditions.jsp Having read both papers in the past, I have found a preference for The Age.  And I'd consider the $15 subscription except that I've no way to access it online on weekdays!  How ridiculous that they limit you to needing an iPad. What do I do?
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWatch Colbert report every weekend. Very entertaining and smart assing. — Whilst I may not be American, and I may not follow US politics, I found this interesting ... 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Yep, 200k mortgage will become less weight 30 years later. But 30 years later you maybe need to borrow half million dollars to buy the same size house. The magic thing is called inflation. So that is why British government considered to issue 100 years mature government bond. Because after 100 years, in theory, all these bond debt will be zero and thanks for the inflation. Hold your breath and tread your path. Haha. — Quote of the day - "Enter our hero. Bernanke steps in, dressed in shining white robes and then, with one smooth fluid motion, reaches over to the keyboard to press enter. Another one trillion dollars created, just like that."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd BTW, remember one guy asked a very stupid question to my kiwi colleague, whether New Zealand and Australia have the SAME national flag. Kiwi colleague said no and was very patient explaining why two flags are different. I don't get it. Why my Kiwi colleague just slap this guy's face right away for such a silly and brainless question. Hahaha ...   — Just find out after today's team lunch, six person's developing team three are Kiwis, including my team leader, two senior developers. +Dean Budd Question, how the hell your people, come to Australia, rip off Aussie's from job market, but you all still call New Zealand home. Explain please ... ;-)
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+James Gemmell I felt M$ was really cool after I saw M$ multimedia Bookshelf and Encyclopedia ran on Windows 95. Couldn't believe education can be so vivid. — Apple Evil, Microsoft Cool again. It's a funny old world.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUS$1500 pre-order Google glass. Hmmm, wonder whether I will get smart up or become stupid if I wear a pair of these glass ... — OK, glass, open the door ... Read more: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWell, fair enough. That'as why New Zealanders are all stubbornly proud to be Kiwis. Damn! — Just find out after today's team lunch, six person's developing team three are Kiwis, including my team leader, two senior developers. +Dean Budd Question, how the hell your people, come to Australia, rip off Aussie's from job market, but you all still call New Zealand home. Explain please ... ;-)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak I reckon this is real how U.S. Reserve Bank work. No physical money created, printed or minted. Just lift currency upper limit bar and allow more amount money carry on into the market. — Quote of the day - "Enter our hero. Bernanke steps in, dressed in shining white robes and then, with one smooth fluid motion, reaches over to the keyboard to press enter. Another one trillion dollars created, just like that."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Oh shit, no confirmation page! You have just found a big fat defect of U.S. treasury app which need to be hot-fixed as soon as possible! Hahaha ... — Quote of the day - "Enter our hero. Bernanke steps in, dressed in shining white robes and then, with one smooth fluid motion, reaches over to the keyboard to press enter. Another one trillion dollars created, just like that."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Far away from over of the crisis. My money is still in the highest online interest account - MyRams, with Australian government's one time for all bugger-off guarantee. — Thank you very much Russ Koesterich, BlackRock's global head of investment strategy. After your "great" speech yesterday, Australian Stock Market tumbled 2.5% today, tipped over from 55 months high! Run, Forrest Run ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMind you, after I told my colleague how great IntelliJ is, he is coding Ruby his sideshow project in IntelliJ 12 now, happily. There is no way you should retreat back to the hogging Eclipse. Forget it. Eclipse is so last century. +Dean Budd check your mate is completely mentally healthy please. — For shame IntelliJ.  You let RubyMine users have the ability to do Puppet but not IntelliJ users. http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-10832 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-92987 I'm not shelling out more money.  Back to Eclipse I go. http://cloudsmith.github.com/geppetto/
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakDo you really know what the problem within your I.T.? You didn't buy enough Oracle's products. Larry Ericson, CEO of Oracle — boooooo again an update to an "update" http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2013update-1905892.html (CC +Martin Paulo +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao )
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTelstra confirms job cuts at Sensis Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed media reports of wide-ranging job cuts at its Sensis arm, which runs Yellow Pages, White Pages and Trading Post. In a statement on its website, Sensis said the group was launching a restructure which was likely to costs about 648 positions at the group Australia-wide. ... Those cuts are expected to include around 391 back room and customer care roles, which will be outsourced to India, a source told Business Spectator. Sensis currently employs around 3500 staff. Read more: http://m.businessspectator.com.au/businessspectator/#!/article/Telstra-confirms-job-cuts-at-Sensis-pd20130221-553JE?OpenDocument&src=pm&utm_source=exact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=190226&utm_campaign=pm&modapt=news&modapt=news  — Sensis is going to shred 500 jobs, about half of its workforce. Telstra Corporation Ltd is reportedly preparing to slash as many as 500 jobs from its ailing print and digital business, Sensis. The cuts, which amount to about 50 per cent of Sensis' estimated total workforce, were flagged by multiple sources at Telstra and Sensis, according to The Australian. While Telstra declined to comment on the report, chief executive David Thodey last week hinted that cost cuts were on the horizon. The company is currently attempting to reinvent Sensis as a nimble, digitally-focused enterprise. Read more: http://m.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/telstra-to-cut-half-of-sensis-workforce/story-fn4iyzsr-1226577444369
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniMind you I noticed less flies and mosquitoes maybe due to less rain fall this summer. — Bloody possums going nuts outside woke me up several times during the night.  I didn't get back to sleep after the last kerfuffle at 4:30am. And nature is also attacking me at work, with mozzies who have discovered that they can bite my foot through my socks.  They also discovered what happens when I get out the flyspray. #gripe  
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Sorry mate, no idea and no time to care about these product cost trivial things. Give me a call if you are looking for a lawyer! — Delightful JavaScript - FusionCharts, charts for your web and mobile Loved by one-man startups to Fortune 500 companies, government institutions to the world's leading banks.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAfter Opera switches to WebKit, only Firefox and IE are left without a modern browser rendering engine.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI use weather station at Melbourne Uni. It closes to CBD - http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/weather-station-data — It's over...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPhotography is not only about expressing photographers passion and love, it's the unique creativeness with the soul in every photo taken ... — Both a classical music composer and a renowned photographer, Spanish artist Martin Zalba Ibáñez merges his experience in these mediums to create stunning photographs that depict breathtaking vistas and yet so much more. The influence of music drives his compositions, as he strives for harmony of color, rhythm of perspective, melody of framing, orchestration of processing, and the counterpoints of shadow and light. His photographs are digital and processed via computer, giving him a versatility that allows him to infuse his own particular style into each image. Read more: http://1x.com/member/37923/martin-zalba/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI can't take these laser cats anymore. Turn it off. Turn it off. — Christopher Walken wants...  MORE LASER CATS!!!
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni85 bucks? Thanks but no. I would put this money into my piggy bank for next generation Nexus 5 which will be the same price as Nexus 4 in May this year. — straw poll: is it worth getting screen protectors on smart phones these days? My old N900 was my first smart phone.  It's gone the journey without any screen protectors, and now that I look at it there are a few small scratch marks.  They aren't noticeable unless you go looking for them. With the Nexus 4 I see that there are protectors for the front & back!  But I wonder if there's much point - it's not like I will be on-selling this phone in the future.  I wonder if such protectors hinder the experience of a smart phone? To buy or not - Yes or No? I came across these which are apparently good, and good value.  My understanding is the sale ends tonight: http://www.xtremeguard.com/LG-Google-Nexus-4-Screen-Protectors-p/lg-nexus-4-screen-protector.htm
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot ALL the Fusion thingy are BAD. — Delightful JavaScript - FusionCharts, charts for your web and mobile Loved by one-man startups to Fortune 500 companies, government institutions to the world's leading banks.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen why you still don't get it? iWatch is not about telling you what time it is, it is a new front human beings interactive with a computing device. — Imagine iWatch - a watch that will change the way you look at time
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen Mikey, don't worry. +*** maybe wouldn't remember who you are now. — Sure thing. If you could make into city, we can catch up with +James Gemmell Mr. J , +Bryan Murphy Mr. B, Lenine Jeganathan Superman L, Alven Kwee Wonderboy Al for lunch or a drink after work. Call it Unico reunion :-)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoiWatch and Google glasses, these wearable devices will be next generation revolutionary products. — Imagine iWatch - a watch that will change the way you look at time
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShame on you! Who keeping ridiculing and poo-pooing IntelliJ pioneering user like +Dean Budd Deano. Who has the taste at last. Haha, haha, hahaha ... — IntelliJ IDEA which has helped ‘jolt’ the industry by making software development faster, easier, and more efficient. Develop with Pleasure!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe number of properties for auction at weekend under 500 doesn't point to any direction of the market. What point of these statistics than rolling dice. — "''The $2 million to $5 million bracket is quite firm and there is a noticeable trend to selling privately instead of going to auction,'' - and what percentage of sales is that? 0.1%?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano won't be bothered unless there are free and unlimited beer on the tap. — Sure thing. If you could make into city, we can catch up with +James Gemmell Mr. J , +Bryan Murphy Mr. B, Lenine Jeganathan Superman L, Alven Kwee Wonderboy Al for lunch or a drink after work. Call it Unico reunion :-)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Mr. J, you are nowadays so hard to find geeks even read I.T. articles from the publish for financial professionals :-) Bow to you.
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Commented on post by AntonSure thing. If you could make into city, we can catch up James, Bryan, Leinne, Alven for lunch or a drink after work. Call it Unico reunion :-) — Hey +Terrence Miao - It was good seeing you the other day.  We should catchup some time....
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniGoogle just releases and offers the Nexus wireless charger only US$ 59.90 for Nexus 4 customers in play store. Cause you're living in Australia, you are second level netizen, you won't get this product. Great! Money saved. — I've ordered a Google Nexus 4.  At last!!! Only the 8GB model, because that's all they had available by the time I realised the phones were back on Google Play AU.  It's probably enough for what I need, but time will tell. The good news?  Google claims a 2-3 week dispatch - However they also claim that they won't charge my credit card until they dispatch ... there's a $368.99 charge to my credit card yesterday from Google Play :-O
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I always think you are a person has no ideas how to write a tech doc in Words, and how to fill your timesheet in Excel. That's why you are always the Tenrox most wanted. Haha — Microsoft is waving white flag to Linux and Android
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper How true! The pencil pushers only need Words, Excel, Outlook, and they can't tell whether it's Windows or Linux if they are banned to play Minesweepers — Microsoft is waving white flag to Linux and Android
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyCan they do the same trick to car engine, releasing the horsepower without burning the fuel? This story is like a alchemy to me. — http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-brief/69325-clean-coal-system-captures-99-percent-of-co2
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Commented on post by Dean BuddCataddicts! Strange people. — This week on... LASER CATS!!!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Dare to put all your bet in stock market now? And won't regret if ASX 200 reaches 6000 point, a 20% return till end of year 2013? ;-)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhat a pity that Australian stock market couldn't match the big Australian cities' living cost index during last decade. If living cost index could be traded, I'll definitely LONG it.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCan't believe Microsoft supports its the most lucrative application running on OS in its enemy camp. Same strategy that Google allows Google apps run on iOS that could kill Apple from inside? Interesting — Microsoft is waving white flag to Linux and Android
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIntelliJ has this feature for ages. This is a good example that small improvement IntelliJ tips over Eclipse and its dog mate STS which still not have. You can now understand why Capitalism wins, Communism loses. — Cool feature of IntelliJ. In your Spring XML it will substitute in property vars so you know what the value will be.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddErgonomic design, good quality build, reliable and high performance BSD OS, these are the reasons MBP over other crappy Dell and HP laptops. Main work is in Java and on web, so Apple's applications and services are irrelevant. If I could choose next Mac, it will include the Apple's wireless keyboard, magic trackpad, but run Hacintosh on a super fast silent PC. Game over. — We've been hinting at it for ages, but now it's OFFICIAL. Apple is the new Microsoft.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddToo big to move, to listen, to change, to adapt. Apple is on ALL the paths walked and failed by Microsoft. The end is nigh. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — We've been hinting at it for ages, but now it's OFFICIAL. Apple is the new Microsoft.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBugger! — "Ten years ago there were no Australian cities in the top 50 and I have not seen this sort of climb with any other cities. But economic growth has supported inflation, and the strength of the Australian dollar against other currencies besides the US dollar has driven up costs. Visitors will certainly feel the difference and people living there will have noticed prices have crept up."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIs ^^^^ your finger salute to Apple? ;-)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCome across another post seems Ember.js becomes last stand in a knock-out contest - http://codebrief.com/2012/01/the-top-10-javascript-mvc-frameworks-reviewed/ Interesting comments come about GWT - Despite what Google says, GWT is not going to stand the test of time. With initiatives like DART its clear that Java is not the future of the web. Furthermore, the abstraction of Java on the client is slightly awkward. — AngularJS is right up there, which should please +Martin Paulo 
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Use Uncle Bob's diagram as the weapon of massive destruction today to silence, dispel dissenters in application design panel. Double checked after back from lunch, no sign of life found. Mission completed ... Hahaha — Most Sacred Heart of Uncle Bob help me to trust you.  More today than I did yesterday. Originally shared by Deano +Dean Budd  Read more: http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniMy Samsung Galaxy Note 2, 5.5" screen doesn't feel too big in palm only till you want to operate it in one finger. — I've ordered a Google Nexus 4.  At last!!! Only the 8GB model, because that's all they had available by the time I realised the phones were back on Google Play AU.  It's probably enough for what I need, but time will tell. The good news?  Google claims a 2-3 week dispatch - However they also claim that they won't charge my credit card until they dispatch ... there's a $368.99 charge to my credit card yesterday from Google Play :-O
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWake up when nature's call and rest when feel tired is taoism for live longevity, same as go to toilet whenever you have peeing sensation :-) — Your personal sleep management with applications f.lux and SleepBot Tracker. Read more:  http://stereopsis.com/flux/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lslk.sleepbot
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSleep Hacks suggest you shouldn't use alarm clock. Smart app will only wake you when it detects you near the end of your sleeping. Good quality sleep a night gives you a good quality work and mode during whole day. BTW, give f.lux a try. I have installed it on my Mac, PC and Android. Already found it's better to my eyes, especially when I stare at monitor at night. — Your personal sleep management with applications f.lux and SleepBot Tracker. Read more:  http://stereopsis.com/flux/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lslk.sleepbot
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniIf you would wait a bit longer till May after Google I/O, maybe you could get X Phone (next generation of Nexus), 5" screen, 1080p, kevlar material made case that mean you drop it on the concentrate it still remains one piece, and Android 5.0, many many more with the SAME price as your Nexus 4. Keep waiting ... — I've ordered a Google Nexus 4.  At last!!! Only the 8GB model, because that's all they had available by the time I realised the phones were back on Google Play AU.  It's probably enough for what I need, but time will tell. The good news?  Google claims a 2-3 week dispatch - However they also claim that they won't charge my credit card until they dispatch ... there's a $368.99 charge to my credit card yesterday from Google Play :-O
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhen did you see I make other people life miserable Deano? ;-) You spent too much of your time on Windows and with Microsoft. It's time to switch to Android and Apple. Let's create another thread to have your favorite trash Mac talks.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTU offers stock option to its employees Baldrick: Not bad. — "In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Transurban offered no reasons for the fall in profit." - How about "we're paying Oracle too much for too little" hahahahaha
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd Deano I agree with you some people, maybe a lot, aren't men or women of their words. But if you could think about the legacy that you could leave behind for this world, personal fortune is only a road that help you reach your destination, but it is not the road of your destiny. Shake hands.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI don't believe a charity or non-profit group can survive longer and make a big impact just depends on people's donation or begging money. To have a sustainable development they need to have the stable income. Raspberry Pi makes small profit by selling every hardware. Even Bill & Melinda Gates foundation still make income than just give money away at the moment. Back to Pi, I don't think build your added-on service based on the device and make income even profit is unethical thing. This also help Pi becomes more popular and flourish. Have a look how many OS projects, 150 already, joined Apache software foundation. Are they not good enough? No, because they don't have the money and can't be self-sustaining.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDeano, let me show you an example. Bill & Mellida Gates foundation just announces historic opportunity to end polio. Thanks to childhood vaccines, polio has been reduced by 99% and we are on the threshold of eradicating the second disease in history. Only the second disease in history. And it is not done by a country, a government, or a world organisation, it is done by a person with his massive accumulated fortune. Sometime, money isn't the root of all evil. Check: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/polio/Pages/end-polio.aspx
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLe meilleur des mondes possibles (The best of all possible worlds in English) need a sustainable development.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDon't upgrade.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakCRASH study is written by people with the brain not bigger than the peanut. The report is a total rubbish. Over. — +Martin Paulo +Terrence Miao +Dean Budd +James Gemmell +Kieran Simpson good point/comment by +Cay Horstmann (presumably this is the same Cay Horstmann one who wrote best ever Java books bar none ;)
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd Respberry Pi is a like a baby of a charity organisation. I don't think it has the profit margin by selling the hardware. My point is that there are a lot potentials in raspberry pi, like K makes it as home media center, or it can be used as the set top box for Internet tv , maybe a lot other possibilities. To make Pi long live, Pi needs to become financial independent itself at first, better to have a few more successful business's stories make it more popular and flourish. Just like Android's success is a business success as well.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWell done. I'll pitch more valuable information from you next time meet-up. Beer is on me. Send your other cost to Deano +Dean Budd :-)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHi, how is your home entertaining center on raspberry pi project going? Is it ready for commercialising?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAnother "wise" guy once said "If you keep NO record what you did, you are always assumed you have succeed".
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni+Michael Poloni This tool can cut your standard sim card to micro sim card - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250944318935#ht_5671wt_1139 I went to a Telstra shop. The staff used the tool and cut sim card for me for free. — I've ordered a Google Nexus 4.  At last!!! Only the 8GB model, because that's all they had available by the time I realised the phones were back on Google Play AU.  It's probably enough for what I need, but time will tell. The good news?  Google claims a 2-3 week dispatch - However they also claim that they won't charge my credit card until they dispatch ... there's a $368.99 charge to my credit card yesterday from Google Play :-O
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniGot LMT Launcher Pie Control installed on Android phone. It seems a must have application - http://highonandroid.com/android-apps/how-to-add-pie-control-to-any-rooted-android-smartphonetablet-lmt-launcher/ Especially helpful on a single finger, on a giant screen. — I've ordered a Google Nexus 4.  At last!!! Only the 8GB model, because that's all they had available by the time I realised the phones were back on Google Play AU.  It's probably enough for what I need, but time will tell. The good news?  Google claims a 2-3 week dispatch - However they also claim that they won't charge my credit card until they dispatch ... there's a $368.99 charge to my credit card yesterday from Google Play :-O
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson-1000 — IntelliJ FAIL!!!!!!
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Commented on post by Casper CasperThe real question is when will Oracle start providing security updates that actually work for Java 7? If they can't secure Java 7 it doesn't matter if they EOL Java 6. Oracle won't do any better with Java than Adobe did with Flex. The management at those companies just doesn't care enough about engineering excellence. Their managers are fine with shipping defective products. Still the same old dog, still the same old tricks ... — "will start auto-updating ... users from JRE 6 to JRE 7" http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/jdk6-retirement
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLet's have a look the other side of these statistics. Annual inflation 2.5%, interest rate on home loan 6%, even property value increased 1.5% if you bought last year, you still lose 7% in 12 month. That is a lot money having a half million dollars loan. Sorry I have no respect to these property market analysts and reporters. They are just batch of dirty scam bags and f_____g bastards. — The spruikers are getting desperate.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHow lucky people Aussie and Kiwi here breath fresh air and totally tax free. — Pollution problem... solved! Human Beings, the most intelligent species in the Universe.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThere are two lousy jobs I reckon in IT- environment manager and release manager. — At a DevOps conference I went to, there was an impromptu session on this topic.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAging solution, still work perfectly. Corporate security Nazi should ban all phones inside the building. — Mobile + tethering + laptop + DynDNS + SSH = bypassing corporate stupidity blocking me checking on my machines rebuilding status.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAny kind extreme prediction of economy trend is only attracting more eye balls than building credibility. Like the people who predicted property price in Sydney and Melbourne would be halved during the GFC, and the cunning real estate agents who told you property value would be doubled every 7 years. They are all become laughing stocks now. Anyway Australia is an expensive place run business. Pollies are not economists or enter prefers. They are just professional pollies. "The government are a bunch of monkeys who don't understand business," "We're not living in the 1960s anymore. Australia has its head stuck up its arse on IR.' Good point. — While there is some merit to his arguments, Mish should be careful quoting from The Australian.  They've been smacked on a few occasions recently for blatantly misrepresenting facts (and for tucking away retractions where noone will read them).  Whether they're wrong is up to the reader (in this instance I don't think so because 2.5 times the rate for a public holiday is silly).
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Big toys are for big boys :-D — A mind-boggling building job Read more: http://www.aircraftcarrieralliance.co.uk/en/the-ships.aspx Photo stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWow!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSigned. — I don't agree with everything GetUp does, but the desire to save the reef is admirable.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell +Oleg Kiorsak Dream comes true. Home nuclear power  reacton in action +Bryan Murphy Dream comes true. 20+ Year battery lifetime makes your pebble watch never need to exchange battery till it is broken. — Tritium is a beta- (electron) emitting by-product of certain nuclear power plants (e.g. CanDU Reactors), which City Labs implements in a safe and effective power-harvesting battery. 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYep, young ladies serve the food are HOT! Very, very German, knowing the food you will die for, knowing your desire you will pay more! — House brew German beer, German sausage with chips only $15! Very very German at Hofbrauhaus Melbourne. Check http://www.google.com.au/search?aq=1&oq=hofbrauhaus+re&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&q=hofbrauhaus+restaurant+melbourne#mldd=0
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyWill talk you later. Ciao ciao. — You can pay for things on Google Play using Telstra billing (including PrePaid).  Now I will have a way to use all my accumulating credit.   http://www.telstra.com.au/latest-offers/google-play/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak I need back office and do more work after lunch mate. — House brew German beer, German sausage with chips only $15! Very very German at Hofbrauhaus Melbourne. Check http://www.google.com.au/search?aq=1&oq=hofbrauhaus+re&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&q=hofbrauhaus+restaurant+melbourne#mldd=0
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Commented on post by Dean Buddhttp://getpocket.com Save article in browser, read it later on devices like PC, smart phone, tablet and TV, at home, on the train, or in toilet. Cheers ;-) — Can anyone recommend a decent "read it later" kind of app? I don't want to use delicious as for me bookmarking and "saving for later" are two distinct concepts.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd help the Australian on Australia Day Deano. When the economy is downhill, this country needs more eating, drinking bulls and milking cows, not the dudes playing games on a 60 inches screen in office. Hahaha — House brew German beer, German sausage with chips only $15! Very very German at Hofbrauhaus Melbourne. Check http://www.google.com.au/search?aq=1&oq=hofbrauhaus+re&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&q=hofbrauhaus+restaurant+melbourne#mldd=0
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniIt's on my to do list as well. — A straightforward guide to getting a Pi up and running.  I might have to try one over my next holidays. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/01/a-beginners-guide-to-the-raspberry-pi/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGreat comment made by Faisal Waris  ... solving a complex problem (programming or otherwise) first involves building a mental model which is like putting together a fragile house of cards. Any interruptions destroy the model/house (or context as described above) which you have to rebuild before you can be productive again. — • A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. • When interrupted during an edit of a method, only 10% of times did a programmer resume work in less than a minute. • A programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper +Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson Installation of the cone of silence is becoming compulsory! — • A programmer takes between 10-15 minutes to start editing code after resuming work from an interruption. • When interrupted during an edit of a method, only 10% of times did a programmer resume work in less than a minute. • A programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell next time catchup I will greet you with "Still worship Emacs James?" — +James Gemmell just know a new colleague join my team is a Emacs person. You know what I mean - every piece of work doing in Emacs. Though I have jumped ship from ship, he is the only second Emacs junkie I know after YOU :-P
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Commented on post by Casper CasperOffice should install the cone of silence for developers. One of my worst experience is sitting opposite HR team. The only time they are a bit quite is when food in their mouths. I know how crappy codes I am writing in such kind of environment. — http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper you are definitely out of this league :-) — +James Gemmell just know a new colleague join my team is a Emacs person. You know what I mean - every piece of work doing in Emacs. Though I have jumped ship from ship, he is the only second Emacs junkie I know after YOU :-P
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd I quite like IntelliJ 12. Still give a big thumb up. Waiting for a more stable version. — Hey +Dean Budd who knew that in IntelliJ when you click Cancel the action is actually killed.  What a novel concept :p
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSwitch back to IntelliJ 11. Bugs in http proxy, false alarm in JNDI port on 1099 and failed to start Tomcat with missing but existing spring bean in new version IntelliJ force me take tough action. Version 12 improves a lot, also increasement of defects. — Hey +Dean Budd who knew that in IntelliJ when you click Cancel the action is actually killed.  What a novel concept :p
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Practise with my T-shirt. Works like a charm. Anyway, 5 seconds still too demanding. Better get married and let your wife do for you :-D — How to Fold a T-shirt in 5 Seconds (Ninja style) More life support tips at: http://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/50-life-hacks-to-simplify-your-world/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddCheck "Signing in using application-specific passwords". After I enable two steps password verification. Google Chrome Sync stops working. This is the solution. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=ch_b%2F0%2FSmsAuthConfig&answer=185833
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Commented on post by Dean BuddRemember Bryan told me Google Authenticator long time ago. It works like a software token on your smart phone, generating random 6 digit number which expired in a period time, and smart phone's click with Google time server. Go and get it. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHave enabled Google's two steps password verification on my MBP and smart phone. Can sleep well now.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+James Gemmell They also repatriated their deposited gold from London. Where deposit gold in U.S and France are fee free, British charges German 500,000 euros a year to keep their gold. German deposit gold oversea mainly due to fear of the invasion from Russia.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle+ is beaten. It tries to tag the people in the drawings! — These're chalk drawings, not photos
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonImport a legacy Maven 2.x / Eclipse project into IntelliJ 12 first time this morning. A blissful experience. IntelliJ finds and adds all the profiles and modules automatically, recognises system Tomcat 7 and Maven repository settings. When kick off running the application, the missing dependent runtime libraries can re-import from Maven repository. What you can ask for more when IntelliJ is really smart. My two colleagues have to downgrade STS, due to Maven 2.x and 3.x built-in plugin incompatible, to get the SAME app running. They maybe spent whole week just to get development environment working. Lesson learned is that never allow an ass tool let you down ... — Day 2: I'm really ashamed to admit it.  Getting some stuff done in IntelliJ is actually really easy.  Deploying to/running JBoss was a snap compared to contortions I've gone through in the past with Eclipse.  To be fair, it's an area that Eclipse has improved on a lot and I should have just tried harder.  But I could never get it to work. At least today I don't have to deal with +Dean Budd s gloating.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAnother sign the end of world default currency Us dollars.
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Commented on post by Martin PauloTax invasion has a good argument now :-) Anyway, don't grant your trust to pollies. They are like baby's diaper, you have to keep changing them for one reason or another.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperEvery time Facebook releases a new product I start worrying about a new way FB could breach people's privacy. FB is the culprit of online bullying and stalking.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Rumours Dell is negotiating with private fund. If success, Dell will disappear from NASDAQ stock market. Neither HP is better. A few big mistakes made by HP, e.g., discovered $5 billion worth of fraud in Autonomy's books very later stage, killed Palm WebOS, it destroyed Palm, the mobile company it acquired for $1.2 billion in 2010. PC is dying. Sell all your PCs at home before they become worthless ... — Nexus 5, Nexus 7.7 made by LG for Google I/O, specs, features and prices leaked already http://t.co/pSsoI4wl
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni trust me. Rumours I spread have more credibility than the promises made by pollies ;-) For example, I was credited for the rumour that Apple is going to make 7 inches tablet. People thought I was on drug at the moment. But iPad mini becomes a fact two years later. Anyway, if you could do more work, spend more time on tablet than desktop these is no point keep dumping more money in PC. Netbook is already claimed dead because of tablet device. PC, basically desktop PC, will be the next one.  — Nexus 5, Nexus 7.7 made by LG for Google I/O, specs, features and prices leaked already http://t.co/pSsoI4wl
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni rumours that LG has stopping making Nexus 4. — Nexus 5, Nexus 7.7 made by LG for Google I/O, specs, features and prices leaked already http://t.co/pSsoI4wl
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHoly moly! Money goes into your pocket never can match the money being taken out to catch up the latest released gadgets. Keep waiting!  — Nexus 5, Nexus 7.7 made by LG for Google I/O, specs, features and prices leaked already http://t.co/pSsoI4wl
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Absolutely. He is a journalist at first then a TV presenter. Love his writing style.  — Good-looking Audi for drivers behaving badly by Jeremy "Big Mouth" Clarkson The results of a continent-wide survey are in and it’s been announced that the Italians are the worst drivers in Europe. Apparently this is largely due to a strong showing from the Italians themselves, 28% of whom said, “Yup. Nobody does it worse than us.” Well, I’m sorry, but I’m incredulous about this, because the Italians are in fact the best drivers, not just in Europe but anywhere. They get to where they’re going more quickly, and they have more fun on the way. They also look good in the process. Just last week I was driving from Turin to Milan in a car that develops 662 horsepower. It was plainly very fast and I was plainly in a big hurry. But that didn’t stop every single Italian I encountered trying to get past. The Italian driver must overtake the car in front. This is a rule. Even if the car in front is an F-15E Strike Eagle and you are in a 17-year-old Fiat with a two-stroke under the bonnet, you must get past or you are not a man. They say that you never feel more alive than you do when you are staring death in the face. Which is why my drive though Rome last year in a Lamborghini Aventador was such an unparalleled joy. You can’t daydream there; you can’t take in the views. Many Roman drivers have no idea the Colosseum is still upright: they’re so busy concentrating on getting past the car in front, they’ve never even noticed it. You can’t help but notice, though, the weeping American tourists, marooned on traffic islands, wondering through heaving sobs why no car will stop at the pedestrian crossing. Because they’re racing, you witless idiots. However, what makes it different from any race you’ve ever seen is that no one knows where the finish line is or where the other competitors are going. That’s what adds to the sparkle. I was once on the autostrada outside Pisa when the car behind indicated it wished to get past by nudging my rear bumper. It was quite a hefty nudge, if I’m honest. Which is why I was so surprised to note the vehicle in question was being driven by a nun. I promise I’m not making this up. I was rammed out of the way by a nun in an Alfa Romeo. What fascinates me is that when you drive to Italy through France, you have mile after mile of belligerence and arrogance and big Citroëns being in both lanes at once. Then you go through a tunnel and on the other side everyone is stark, staring bonkers. Rude on one side of a hill. Mad on the other. It’s strange. Other nations to do badly in the survey are the Greeks, who drive very much like the Italians, only without the panache, skill or style, and the Germans. Ah, the Germans. I don’t think they are necessarily bad, but it is the only country in the world where I sometimes feel intimidated. As if the man coming the other way really would rather die in a huge head-on smash than pull over a bit. Apparently, the best drivers in Europe are the Finns. How can we be sure? I’m the only person I’ve ever met who’s been to Finland. The Brits come eighth, and there can be only one reason for such a poor showing: the sheer number of Audis you see whizzing about these days. There was a time when Audis were driven by cement salesmen, but in recent years they have become the must-have accessory for squash- and golf-playing winners. And squash- and golf-playing winners don’t have the time or the inclination to let you out of a side turning, that’s for sure. Also, Audi drivers have it in their heads that the stopping distances in the Highway Code are given in millimetres. You check next time you’re being tailgated. I bet you any money the culprit is in an Audi. This used to be a BMW problem but today BMWs are rather too restrained and tasteful for the world’s winners. The slight flashiness of an Audi goes better with the pillars outside their houses. That said, the new S6 is really rather good-looking. The wheels are especially handsome and overall it has the look of a BMW, the look of a car whose body has been stretched to the absolute limits to cover the wheels; the look, in short, of a car that can barely contain its muscle. The muscle in question is actually smaller than it used to be. In the old S6 you had the Lamborghini V10 but that’s gone now, a victim of the relentless drive for better emissions and improved fuel economy. So instead you get a twin-turbo V8, the same unit Bentley is using in the basic Continental GT these days. It’s a clever engine because when you are just pootling about, four of the cylinders close down — if you really, really concentrate, you can sense that happening — which means you are using far less fuel. And then at the lights everything stops, which means you are using none at all. The upshot is about 29mpg, and that’s pretty damn good for a car of this type. Obviously the power is down a tad from the old V10. But you still get a colossal shove in the back when you floor it, and a sense that even with four-wheel drive the tyres are scrabbling for grip, like a girl in a horror film running away from the monster in the wood. Sometimes you think there may even be too much power, because this is not a sports saloon. It may look like one, with its silver mirrors and its fancy wheels and its V8 badges on the front wings. But the steering is not sporty at all. And neither is the ride. Gone are the days when Audis jiggled on rough roads. Some were so bad, I often thought I was going to have an aneurysm. The new models, though, even the fast ones such as this, are extremely good at isolating occupants from the slovenliness of the British roadwork Johnny. Doubtless there will be a harder, more focused RS6 in due course, but for now what we have here is a comfortable, economical, fast and good-looking cruiser. Inside, you get quilted seats. And I’d like to say at this point how much I hate their vulgarity. But sadly I can’t. Because they look great. The equipment levels are pretty impressive too. Put it this way: if there’s a gadget you’ve seen in another car of this type, you can be assured it’s available in the S6. It’s a silly John Lewis-style price-promise game played by Audi, BMW and Mercedes. When one of them introduces a new toy such as a head-up display, the others follow suit. In the S6 I notice that Audi allows you to choose how long you would like voice commands to be. The others will have that feature in a year. Jaguar should play a joke on the Germans and say its next car will have a ski jump in the boot. Or an aquarium in the glove box. Until then, though, the S6 is a good, well-judged car that would make a great deal of sense in Italy. Here in Britain, however, it will be bought and driven extremely badly by people you wouldn’t want round for dinner. For that reason, I still slightly prefer the BMW 5-series.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson There are three simple things can do to make you become a better +Dean Budd Deano: 1. Stick with your Mac book Pro. Be a Mac dude than a PC red-neck. 2. Don't play computer games. It is a totally time killing, money wasting extravagant life style. 3. Drinking wine instead of beer make you more gentleman like than urinating everywhere ...  — Day 2: I'm really ashamed to admit it.  Getting some stuff done in IntelliJ is actually really easy.  Deploying to/running JBoss was a snap compared to contortions I've gone through in the past with Eclipse.  To be fair, it's an area that Eclipse has improved on a lot and I should have just tried harder.  But I could never get it to work. At least today I don't have to deal with +Dean Budd s gloating.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAs +Dean Budd Deano pointed out before, IntelliJ why is called intelligent is because there are a lot smaller improvement, smart ways to get development done quickly and let developers have more time drinking beer, in every corner of it which make IntelliJ superior than Eclipse and its dog mate STS. Maybe there are hundreds these improvements if not thousand. It is very harder describe in plain English in a concise way. You have to use it and feel it yourself. There is no way turning back if you are becoming get used to IntelliJ. Eclipse users look like being roofied without resistance people now.  — Day 2: I'm really ashamed to admit it.  Getting some stuff done in IntelliJ is actually really easy.  Deploying to/running JBoss was a snap compared to contortions I've gone through in the past with Eclipse.  To be fair, it's an area that Eclipse has improved on a lot and I should have just tried harder.  But I could never get it to work. At least today I don't have to deal with +Dean Budd s gloating.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen yep, very hot baby. Harder than applying for an asylum visa in Australia. — Toyota 86,  the car of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream Toyota's 86 sports coupe, which is winning worldwide acclaim, has now been named Car of the Year 2012 by Britain's Top Gear magazine. In a clean-sweep at the awards, the 86 was also named Coupe of the Year and Top Gear TV personality Jeremy Clarkson's personal Car of the Year. In the olden days, when people had diphtheria and children were covered in soot, cars had skinny little tyres so that enthusiastic drivers could have fun making them slither about on roundabouts. Nowadays, though, it’s all about grip. Fast Fords are fitted with front differentials to ensure you can keep a tight line, even when you are doing 1,000mph through a mountain hairpin. Then you have the Nissan GT-R, which uses the computing power of a stock exchange to make the same mountain hairpin doable at the speed of sound. In fact, all modern cars cling to the road like a frightened toddler clings onto its mother’s hand. In some ways this is no bad thing. It means the befuddled and the weak are less likely to spin off and hit a tree. And it means the helmsmen among us can post faster lap times on track days. But is that what you want? Really? Because when the grip does run out, you will be travelling at such a rate that you will have neither the talent nor the time to get everything back in order before you slam into a telegraph pole. If you are trying to win a race, high cornering speeds are important. But if you are not, they’re frightening. For the business of going fast, a Nissan GT-R is unbeatable. But for fun — and I am not exaggerating here — you would be better off in a Morris Minor on cross-plies. Which brings me neatly to the door of this week’s test car. It’s called the Toyota GT86 and it’s been built in a collaboration with Subaru, which is selling an almost identical machine called the BRZ. Unlike most coupés, such as the Ford Capri, Volkswagen Scirocco and Vauxhall Calibra, the GT86 is not a hatchback in a party frock. It is not a marketing exercise designed to relieve the style-conscious of their surplus cash. It isn’t even very good-looking. Or practical. The boot is large enough for things, but you can forget about putting anyone in the back, even children. Unless they’ve no legs or heads. Power? Well, it has a 2-litre boxer engine — Subaru’s contribution — which delivers 197 brake horsepower. That’s not very much. But because the car weighs just 1,275kg and the engine is so revvy, you’ll hit 62mph in 7.6 seconds and a top speed of 140mph. It could almost be mistaken for a hot hatch. But there’s no mistaking the noise. This car is loud, and not in a particularly nice way. There’s no crisp exhaust note, no induction wheezing. It’s just the sound of petrol exploding in a metal box. The interior is nothing to write home about, either. You get what you need by way of equipment — air-conditioning, stereo, cup holders and so on — but there’s no sense of style or beauty. Apart from a bit of red stitching here and there, it all feels utilitarian, the product of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream. So, there is nothing about this car, either on paper or in the showroom, that is going to tickle the tickly bits of Clint Thrust, the lantern-jawed hero from the planet Oversteer. And yet there is, because, unlike most cars of its type, the GT86 is rear-wheel drive. Rear drive in a car is like a roux in cooking. Yes, you can use cheap’n’easy cornflour front-wheel drive, but if you want the best results you have to go the extra mile. You have to fit a prop shaft. And a differential. In a rear-drive car the front wheels are left to get on with the job of steering while those at the back handle the business of propulsion. It’s expensive to make a car this way, and complicated, but the end result will be better, more balanced. And now we get to the nub of Toyota’s genius. The company fitted the GT86 with the same skinny little tyres it uses on the Prius. And what this means is that there is very little grip. You turn into a corner at what by modern standards is a pedestrian speed, and immediately you feel the tail start to slide. So you let it go a little bit, and when the angle is just so, you find a throttle position that keeps it there. For ever. You are power-sliding, you are grinning like an ape and you are doing about 13mph. Which means that if you do make a mess of it and you’re heading for a tree, you can open the door and get out. You won’t make a mess of it, though, because the steering is perfectly weighted and full of juicy feel. I promise. The GT86 will unlock a talent you didn’t know you had. It will unleash your hero gene and you will never want to drive any other sort of car ever again. No, really. Put some cotton wool in your ears, snick the old-feeling snick-snick box down into second, stand hard on the astoundingly good brakes, wish you’d used more cotton wool as the boxer engine roars, turn the wheel, feel the back start to go and it’s like being back in the time of the Mk 1 Ford Escort. I’m sure that at this point many non-enthusiasts are wondering whether I’ve taken leave of my senses. Why, they will ask, would anyone want a noisy, impractical car that won’t go round corners properly? Simple answer: if you’re asking the question, the GT86 is not for you. I suppose I could raise a safety question. Because, while its antics are a massive giggle on a track, I do wonder what will happen when it’s raining and your head is full of other things and you try to go round a roundabout at 25mph. There’s a time and a place for oversteer and I’m not sure 5.30pm in suburbia is it. Best in these circumstances, then, to turn the traction control on. There’s another issue, too. I’m willing to bet that some people will decide that the styling of the GT86 could be improved by fitting larger wheels and fatter tyres. Do not do this. Because while it may make the car more meaty to behold, it will ruin the recipe as surely as you would ruin a plate of cauliflower cheese by vomiting on it. Frankly, I wouldn’t change a thing about the GT86. Because it’s so bland, it doesn’t attract too much attention. You can therefore have fun without being marked out by passers-by as an anorak. And now we get to the clincher. The GT86 costs less than £25,000 with manual transmission. That makes it cheaper than a Vauxhall Astra VXR. It makes it a Tiffany diamond for the price of a fairground lucky-dip prize. It’s strange. We thought purpose-designed coupés had gone. We thought wayward handling had gone. And we sure as hell thought genuinely good value had gone. But all three things are now back in one astonishing car. Perhaps the most interesting car to be launched since the original Mazda MX-5. I’m giving it five stars only because it’s not possible to hand out more. By Jeremy "Big Mouth" Clarkson
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Commented on post by Casper CasperUsing a bump key and give a wacky, you can open most locks in a few seconds.  Sorry, can't tell you more. — just like in oblivion ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson You guys really run far in front and leave rest of people in the dust ... — The $35 bare-board Linux computer Raspberry Pi has been sold over, almost, one million units since released in February of 2012 Read more: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/raspberry-pi-million-boards/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI don't know you are such a fashionable person Bryan ;-) — First there is smart phone, then the smart TV, now the smart watch. Pebble watch, the most successful story of placed the 85000 pre-orders through its $10 million Kickstarter campaign, and the most renovated product of CES 2013 I reckon. Read more: http://getpebble.com/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I have never seen human beings in a RPG computer game feel so real until now ...  — Shout out for +Tom Lim  Read more: http://www.cyberpunk.net/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCelebrating engineering excellence ... — Toyota 86,  the car of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream Toyota's 86 sports coupe, which is winning worldwide acclaim, has now been named Car of the Year 2012 by Britain's Top Gear magazine. In a clean-sweep at the awards, the 86 was also named Coupe of the Year and Top Gear TV personality Jeremy Clarkson's personal Car of the Year. In the olden days, when people had diphtheria and children were covered in soot, cars had skinny little tyres so that enthusiastic drivers could have fun making them slither about on roundabouts. Nowadays, though, it’s all about grip. Fast Fords are fitted with front differentials to ensure you can keep a tight line, even when you are doing 1,000mph through a mountain hairpin. Then you have the Nissan GT-R, which uses the computing power of a stock exchange to make the same mountain hairpin doable at the speed of sound. In fact, all modern cars cling to the road like a frightened toddler clings onto its mother’s hand. In some ways this is no bad thing. It means the befuddled and the weak are less likely to spin off and hit a tree. And it means the helmsmen among us can post faster lap times on track days. But is that what you want? Really? Because when the grip does run out, you will be travelling at such a rate that you will have neither the talent nor the time to get everything back in order before you slam into a telegraph pole. If you are trying to win a race, high cornering speeds are important. But if you are not, they’re frightening. For the business of going fast, a Nissan GT-R is unbeatable. But for fun — and I am not exaggerating here — you would be better off in a Morris Minor on cross-plies. Which brings me neatly to the door of this week’s test car. It’s called the Toyota GT86 and it’s been built in a collaboration with Subaru, which is selling an almost identical machine called the BRZ. Unlike most coupés, such as the Ford Capri, Volkswagen Scirocco and Vauxhall Calibra, the GT86 is not a hatchback in a party frock. It is not a marketing exercise designed to relieve the style-conscious of their surplus cash. It isn’t even very good-looking. Or practical. The boot is large enough for things, but you can forget about putting anyone in the back, even children. Unless they’ve no legs or heads. Power? Well, it has a 2-litre boxer engine — Subaru’s contribution — which delivers 197 brake horsepower. That’s not very much. But because the car weighs just 1,275kg and the engine is so revvy, you’ll hit 62mph in 7.6 seconds and a top speed of 140mph. It could almost be mistaken for a hot hatch. But there’s no mistaking the noise. This car is loud, and not in a particularly nice way. There’s no crisp exhaust note, no induction wheezing. It’s just the sound of petrol exploding in a metal box. The interior is nothing to write home about, either. You get what you need by way of equipment — air-conditioning, stereo, cup holders and so on — but there’s no sense of style or beauty. Apart from a bit of red stitching here and there, it all feels utilitarian, the product of a bean counter’s lowest-bidder wet dream. So, there is nothing about this car, either on paper or in the showroom, that is going to tickle the tickly bits of Clint Thrust, the lantern-jawed hero from the planet Oversteer. And yet there is, because, unlike most cars of its type, the GT86 is rear-wheel drive. Rear drive in a car is like a roux in cooking. Yes, you can use cheap’n’easy cornflour front-wheel drive, but if you want the best results you have to go the extra mile. You have to fit a prop shaft. And a differential. In a rear-drive car the front wheels are left to get on with the job of steering while those at the back handle the business of propulsion. It’s expensive to make a car this way, and complicated, but the end result will be better, more balanced. And now we get to the nub of Toyota’s genius. The company fitted the GT86 with the same skinny little tyres it uses on the Prius. And what this means is that there is very little grip. You turn into a corner at what by modern standards is a pedestrian speed, and immediately you feel the tail start to slide. So you let it go a little bit, and when the angle is just so, you find a throttle position that keeps it there. For ever. You are power-sliding, you are grinning like an ape and you are doing about 13mph. Which means that if you do make a mess of it and you’re heading for a tree, you can open the door and get out. You won’t make a mess of it, though, because the steering is perfectly weighted and full of juicy feel. I promise. The GT86 will unlock a talent you didn’t know you had. It will unleash your hero gene and you will never want to drive any other sort of car ever again. No, really. Put some cotton wool in your ears, snick the old-feeling snick-snick box down into second, stand hard on the astoundingly good brakes, wish you’d used more cotton wool as the boxer engine roars, turn the wheel, feel the back start to go and it’s like being back in the time of the Mk 1 Ford Escort. I’m sure that at this point many non-enthusiasts are wondering whether I’ve taken leave of my senses. Why, they will ask, would anyone want a noisy, impractical car that won’t go round corners properly? Simple answer: if you’re asking the question, the GT86 is not for you. I suppose I could raise a safety question. Because, while its antics are a massive giggle on a track, I do wonder what will happen when it’s raining and your head is full of other things and you try to go round a roundabout at 25mph. There’s a time and a place for oversteer and I’m not sure 5.30pm in suburbia is it. Best in these circumstances, then, to turn the traction control on. There’s another issue, too. I’m willing to bet that some people will decide that the styling of the GT86 could be improved by fitting larger wheels and fatter tyres. Do not do this. Because while it may make the car more meaty to behold, it will ruin the recipe as surely as you would ruin a plate of cauliflower cheese by vomiting on it. Frankly, I wouldn’t change a thing about the GT86. Because it’s so bland, it doesn’t attract too much attention. You can therefore have fun without being marked out by passers-by as an anorak. And now we get to the clincher. The GT86 costs less than £25,000 with manual transmission. That makes it cheaper than a Vauxhall Astra VXR. It makes it a Tiffany diamond for the price of a fairground lucky-dip prize. It’s strange. We thought purpose-designed coupés had gone. We thought wayward handling had gone. And we sure as hell thought genuinely good value had gone. But all three things are now back in one astonishing car. Perhaps the most interesting car to be launched since the original Mazda MX-5. I’m giving it five stars only because it’s not possible to hand out more. By Jeremy "Big Mouth" Clarkson
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper +Dean Budd Deano can have my next baby, but Casper you can be my best man! Hahaha — Job done in Groovy is like a breathe of fresh air compared to Java
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI have tasted functional style in Groovy programming. I quite like it. Sometime I have no ideas how the hell job got done so nicely in functional style. BTW, Dracula is maybe only good for daytime coding, switching traditional all white background if work on night shift. Cheers. — Job done in Groovy is like a breathe of fresh air compared to Java
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I will, I will. You are right 99.999% time. For example, I have dithered old IntelliJ to latest release 12 after heard your loudest rant on G+, though Dracula UI almost kills my eyes. — Job done in Groovy is like a breathe of fresh air compared to Java
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, I reckon Scala needs have its moment before it becomes a dominated language for developers. Like Java has XML and business world support. Groovy has Grails and the Spring's military base. But what killer applications does Scala have right now? Test cases and back-end multiple threads job are still best suit for Scala at the moment I reckon. — Job done in Groovy is like a breathe of fresh air compared to Java
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNeed to understand Shovelware or Crapplet to get this joke. Of course, will be very smelly combining an USB driver with a pile of defecate to get the meaning delivered ... — BEST USB DRIVE EVER! <immediately orders one for the office>
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd this is the toughest task in businesses - luring, flirting, seducing the developers into the "trap", as same as to Ubuntu phone.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI reckon there is some misunderstanding of this article. It demos advanced irrigation technologies that could grow crop even in a harsh condition like in deserts. I don't believe author encourages or approves people to use more precious water to harvest less precious rice pudding. — Inspiring people to care about the planet Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121217-pictures-greening-desert-irrigation-water-grabs/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhen the rumours squashed, there isn't pair shoes let you wear and run faster with your invested money away from the market. — http://m.theage.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/hoax-press-release-sparks-whitehaven-plunge-20130107-2cc47.html I'm torn between laughing uncontrollably and not because of the seriousness of leaking fake info.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAnother lesson why investment is about fundamental rather than the speculation. — http://m.theage.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/hoax-press-release-sparks-whitehaven-plunge-20130107-2cc47.html I'm torn between laughing uncontrollably and not because of the seriousness of leaking fake info.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAlso you loved Ubuntu smartphone will be in CES 2013
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFrom Tuesday this week (Jan 8 11th) in Las Vegas, 2013 CES (consumers electronics show) which Internet TV plays a leading role, last year best lover smartphone only a support role this time. The show will measure how far your vision to the reality :)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, there are three facts you just can't ignore: 1. Have you noticed Mac mini, which Apple always has the advantage in design the product of the future? Maybe it predicts the fate of PC, which the monitor, keyboard and mouse are becoming not the essential parts of PC. 2. Apple again. It is considering replacing Intel inside MacBook Pro with ARM processor. Yes, the ARM, the same processor for iPhone and iPad. That tells you something, ARM has all the potential becomes substituted heart of a "PC". 3. Intel, on the other hand, is moving to design the processor for mobile devices - smartphone, tablets. This means the end of WINTEL domination on PC in last twenty years, also means computing in future will be more mobile, lighter and less power demand. Eyes wildly open. These change is coming. Stop upgrading more powerful graphic cards for your games binge. Buy some shares of ARM Holdings. It's British, who designed and licensed ARM architecture. In 2011, 7.9 billion ARM processors shipped, representing 95% of smartphones, 90% of hard disk drives, 40% of digital televisions and set-top boxes, 15% of micro controllers and 20% of mobile computers. — Down Down, Prices Are Down - 2012, the year the PC died? PC sales are down for the first time in a decade while the smartphone and tablet market is booming. Is the PC dead? Read more: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/12/26/t-is-the-pc-dead-2012.cnnmoney/
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd They are called Wireless HDMI (for video and audio) and Bluetooth (for keyboard and mouse). Your "vision" is about, urh ..., five years comes later :-D 
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Martin Paulo Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY Richard Collins demoes run Ubuntu on the phone and use phone as a PC, based on Motorola Atrix.  Add into wishlist, hope one day I can carry my phone to office to do the work - running IntelliJ and X Terminal all on the smartphone, with unified and consistent user interface and experience.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao“You don’t take a photograph, you make it". - Ansel Adams — These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city dwellers are missing every night. LA, San Francisco or Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Tokyo. Can you imagine if turn off all the lights of these big metropolises at night so people could look up and enjoy the moment of galaxy ... Read more: http://thierrycohen.com/pages/work/starlights.html 
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd See you are so energetic on G+ and guess you must have back in office today! — Everything under 10% alcohol was considered… food. You Russians are alright! hahaha
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson This last minute, actually it's overtime because Jan 1st is holiday if count, agreement will only lead more disagreement in future. This is the Washington model how to get thing done around which it shouldn't be, which creates huge market uncertainty globally. And market, investors hate this kind political uncertainty. A more bumpy year 2013 is the only certain thing for sure. — Year 2013 starts with big bang - U.S. is officially fallen over the fiscal cliff. #fiscalcliff   A divided country which is still the world leading economy, and divided politicians who all pledged to act on behalf of what is best for the American people making year 2013 more challenge.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Try DigiSSHD and DigiControl all are FREE for Android. SSH, SFTP, SCP support, Dropbear based. — Have been a loyal Openssh customer since time starts but it falls behind in the mobile computing era. This finding is when I try to get a decent solution running SSHD on a smartphone. Of course, I can set up a PC, run the beautiful Ubuntu with SSHD server, but in the end of year 2012, a mobile computing booming year, every applications on PC must also have a tag says "Smartphone Ready". This comes to Dropbear, an implementation of SSHD server, particularly targets to small devices and embedded Linux systems, such as wireless routers, such as smartphones. Power consumption which can be totally ignored and less carbon foot-print, just do one simple task at a time, and you can trust it run 24 hours a day without any fuss. Hmmm ..., sounds interesting.  And its developer, Matt Johnson, an Aussie who maybe lives in a big Australian city like Melbourne, make Dropbear more trustworthy. After start Dropbear service on a smartphone, and I could remotely log on the device the first time, and find out every directory, every file under the bonnet. Actually Android is just Linux insides the mascot, with same common styles and familiar command lines like bash, ps, vi ..., you can name it.  Another goodies you get from Dropbear is it does fully support SSHD standard, that means SSHD can become a socks proxy server. This is especially useful when you are in a "doggy" internet cafe, trying to do especially more "doggy" thing, and you don't want to anyone find out what you are doing on internet. Or you are trying to access gentleman business confidential materials, for example a fiesty porno website, but content filtered and access denied by the Great Firewall setup by Australian Labour government's communication minister Stephen "you-damned-communist" Conroy ... Anyway, give Dropbear a bear hug, on your smartphone especially. You won't be disappointed. I promise you.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao• Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P1000 CyanogenMod Update Guide, http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_(P1000N):_Full_Update_Guide • How to Install Android 2.3.6 Firmware Update on Galaxy Tab GT-P1000, http://androidromupdate.com/2012/02/26/how-to-install-p1000xwjq8-android-2-3-6-firmware-update-on-galaxy-tab-gt-p1000/ • How to Install & Run Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on Galaxy Tab GT-P1000 via CyanogenMod 10, http://www.androidfamily.net/2012/08/16/how-to-install-run-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean-on-galaxy-tab-gt-p1000-via-cyanogenmod-10/ • Install Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean CyanogenMod 10 On Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P1000, http://www.khmedia.in/2012/08/15/install-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean-cyanogenmod-10-on-samsung-galaxy-tab-gt-p1000/ • CyanogenMod Samsung Galaxy Tab (code name: p1) Nightly build, http://get.cm/?device=p1 •  CyanogenMod update on GT-P1000N and get an error (status 7), http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21649322&postcount=468 — Two years with Samsung Galaxy Tab, the original first ever 7" tablet, left without too much love at the end. After move on to younger, sexier Samsung Galaxy Note 2, I start thinking how to do with the old one. Finally I have a free day so I could put CyanogenMod on it as planed. This is the first time I play mod on a smartphone / tablet, taken the whole day to get things under control. Following the instructions I install ClockworkMod Recovery on the tablet but doesn't work. Can't get into recovery mode, and tablet hangs in booting period during Galaxy logo is showing. So have to download Android 2.2.3 Telstra customised firmware. Using ODIN transfer to the tablet, rebooting and wishing back to a "good citizen" time. No way, tablet hangs again though this time after Telstra logo shows. Maybe due to the tablet has been rooted and maybe there are too many junkies in it, backward and forward several times, finally I could get into tablet's default recovery mode then ClockworkMod recovery more. Spending more than half an hour to understand what each dish means in ClockworkMod menu. The tablet is still half dead at that moment, can't copy, transfer files to it. But just lucky enough, I could manage put downloaded CyanogenMod 10 nightly build into micro SD card on Galaxy Note 2. Then install zip file from this portable micro SD card. But CyanogenMod installation failed quickly with "Assert failed" error. It can't verify the tablet model is GT-P1000, though my tablet is GT-P1000T, with only one extra letter "T" in it. Googling, googling ... Find out it's a old "dead" bug is live again. This time, I need to modify the update script in CyanogenMod zip file. Not big deal. Half an hour later, modified update script back in zip file and into the micro SD again. Now, after so many pain in the back, pulling the hair, banging the head on the wall, finally CyanogenMod got installed. Reboot three times, finally I see the familiar Android login interface. Hallelujah! ... Now the old good, yes good, Samsung Galaxy Tab is running "thoroughbred" Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 which is bullshit free. Even "tiny" 512MB ram, single core A7 ARM processor doesn't make Android feel slower at all. I'm totally amazed and elated - the "crappy" hardware is NOT crappy at all. Crappy is because the developers put "crappy" codes in the previous version! Now Wifi network, GPS, camera plus sensors all work fine. Running Gmail, G+, Chrome ... several applications at the SAME time without any issues, smoothly switch between them, with NO lagging, NO crash, NO system frozen. Android developer really have done a great job. I couldn't believe a nightly build is more stable than some big companies production release. Before the upgrade running Android Froyo 2.2 is like stretching 3.5" screen size applications onto 7" tablet. After, it's like squeezing 10" screen applications into 7" tablet, But, the screen is clean, fonts are readable, the most important, you get the full and exactly SAME tablet experience on this aging device. What else more can you expect! I couldn't be ever more happier than "a Frenchman who has spent a life then found out a pair of self-removing trousers". :-D
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell You could run more than two apps at the same time now. But it's on a PC :-) — BlueStacks App Player now lets you run apps from your phone fast and fullscreen on Windows and Mac.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReceived MHL HDMI HDTV adapter today. Basically all work as expected - play 720p video in full screen, but not 1080p video, scale ratio is wrong; audio sent via HDMI cable to the monitor. The Dell monitor has the audio output socket, connecting it to the speakers the audio redirected to speakers now rather than played on the phone.  But it's a dodgy micro USB connection to Samsung Galaxy Note 2. HDMI connection only works when hold it in a particular position. $16 paid for this item shipped from Hong Kong. It's not genuine Samsung product. But the concept has been proved. +Bryan Murphy  — A hacker's guide to Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInstall and setup official un-supported Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox   Can watch ABC iview contents now - http://www.abc.net.au/iview in Firefox, but not in Chrome. Read more:  • http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29508523 • http://www.androiddrawer.com/7633/download-adobe-flash-player-11-11-1-115-34-app-apk +Bryan Murphy  — A hacker's guide to Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniSitting on one of Herman Miller kind chair, I reckon it's Aeron chair in office. Very comfy, very cool chair. I don't have argument with it. — Finding a new task chair for my computer desk is not turning out to be as straightforward as one might think... any suggestions of shops and/or brands of chair to try out?  What features should I be looking for? My requirements are: * Arm wrests; * Ergonomic chair that can be adjusted in most directions; * A chair with adjustable or minimal lower-back support (I've found some chairs that have a protruding lumbar support to be very uncomfortable!);
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe countries never invaded by the British including Mongolia, too far too deep in the middle, and Vatican, just too holy. — General Ignorance - What nations have been to war with the most other nations? An interesting question asked in Quora. The answer is not U.S., thought U.S. has deployed troops in almost every counties except North Korea, Russia and China. "Definitely Great Britain. Britain has invaded 9 out of 10 countries". "The only Country to even come close to Britain's record is France, which also holds the unfortunate record for having endured the most British invasions". Read  more: http://www.quora.com/What-nations-have-been-to-war-with-the-most-other-nations/answer/Se%C3%A1n-P%C3%A1draig
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Wish you ALL have a prosperous and deep pocket year 2013" - Season's greeting from Apple. — The retina screen for the next iPad mini 2 maybe will be released at the same time. Meanwhile, Apple already doesn't let owners of the first iPad download new versions of iOS - let it rot and chuck it into bin. 
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInstall Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Swiftkey 3 and Swype keyboard input on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Swype like built-in Android 4.2 keyboard input is awesome. — A hacker's guide to Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoStep by step to root your newly bought Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Read more: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-note-2-50009855/ — A hacker's guide to Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoChained with Telstra NextG mobile service and how to cut down mini SIM to micro SIM Read more: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112201754385215382872/posts/YrvetNXbKSm — A hacker's guide to Samsung Galaxy Note 2
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Quote from my former Uni colleague - "No fire, no brimstone, no chance to test out my post-civilisation survival skills. Oh well, about to embark on a 6 hr drive with two teenagers, should be a better test of those skills." — So disappointing ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakRegistered but didn't receive the plug. Lucky avoid this failed scheme. — +Terrence Miao +Dean Budd  I remember some of you been "into" these "green things"... what are your experiences?> http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-great-energy-turnoff-20121222-2bsl9.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoStill fancy do the same thing in C++? — I give an example that how concise, simple development in Grails world. A complete MVC structure web application, showing a location table with display by order and pagination features, with no Javascript mess, totally in less than 66 lines code.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYou can read through and understand the codes, in a natural way, even without the knowledge of Grails. — I give an example that how concise, simple development in Grails world. A complete MVC structure web application, showing a location table with display by order and pagination features, with no Javascript mess, totally in less than 66 lines code.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNot another research patronised by the "A Hard Earned Thirst Victoria Bitter".
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyHmmm, interesting. If you could buy things rather than internet download quota  by using your pre-paid credit, that make internet usage payment like PAYG. Please let me know if works for you. Cheers. — You can pay for things on Google Play using Telstra billing (including PrePaid).  Now I will have a way to use all my accumulating credit.   http://www.telstra.com.au/latest-offers/google-play/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonHeard that during his last few months in Unico, he was doing .Net programming. That is maybe the last straw turned him off. — This where CVDV's ended up according to LinkedIn spam.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Government really did some useful and functional portal for the people voted for them! — General knowledge - Absurd Trivia November 19th is World Toilet Day. In 2001 the Singapore based WTO — that is, the World Toilet Organisation — chose a day to mark the plight of the world’s loo-less 2.5 billion. Its slogan this year was “I give a shit, do you?”
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoToilet can be a high technology hot spot and have fun place! — General knowledge - Absurd Trivia November 19th is World Toilet Day. In 2001 the Singapore based WTO — that is, the World Toilet Organisation — chose a day to mark the plight of the world’s loo-less 2.5 billion. Its slogan this year was “I give a shit, do you?”
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoInternet TV is the next big thing I reckon after smartphone s and tablets. — For Apple, it's ALL downhill from here Apple's stock price closed just above $702 in September 2012, and finished at $518 on Dec 17 2012.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLive the development forward mates, unless you could live fun with legacy system. — Having retaught myself C++ for a project where controlling memory is essential, my process was to learn the common features of the language and stay away from the esoteric parts.  I leaned quite heavily on the Effective C++ text as it has kept me from the consequences of the subtle dangers (it too advocates simple code).  Other than that it's good design principles, and TDD that's led me to write clean, portable code. I will say that the thing I missed the most by note being in Java was the lack of a good language library (STL doesn't count), but I found that in Qt and Boost.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOn the fourth day, God created Sun, Moon and stars. On the fourth day, this phone has been rooted, which make user has unlimited power on the machine. Check: http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/how-to-root-the-samsung-galaxy-note-2-50009855/ — A hacker's guide to Telstra mobile phone service Marriage seems unexplainable complicated these days. After two years with my Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first ever generation tablet 7", both of us are tired. The tablet is getting older, slower and grumpy, refusing to be mature like, still staying in Android 2.2 and committing suicide (self-reboot) several times a day.  Now younger and sexier mail-ordered bride - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 arrived after one week long journey from Hong Kong on Friday. However, the new life just starts with a big bang. All the preparation work for the wedding look good. Bridal clothing, shoes and accessories for the big formal occasion are making the day even more special. Connecting Note 2 to home WiFi, Android 4.1.1 guides you step by step, downloading all the latest applications you installed on Tablet 7 before to Note 2, saving your tons of time install them one by one. After two hours without any argument, about 1GB data, all original applications downloaded and installed. The new bride dresses up like old bride in the gown. Then disharmony starts.  New bride refuses to wear the engagement ring which taken off from old bride's finger. The mini SIM card from Tablet 7 can't put on Note 2's micro SIM finger. Thank you, you bloody over regulated European Telecommunications Standards, and Apple made it even popular. No SIM, no internet, no wedding, and can't get to anywhere. Quickly I jump on Google to find out any peace deal solving engagement ring's crisis. No surprise, a few married people on internet teach their experience how to solve the crisis - with a bit help of scissors, paper template, tape. You can D.I.Y., cutting min SIM into micro SIM. Unfortunately, no one of them offer any kind of warranty what if failed. Hmmm, too risky, most probably make the SIM not functional working after the cut if you don't give any practice. But fortunately, at the end of day, find on the Telstra forum, some more experienced married people talk about back to the jewellery store - Telstra shop, you could ask exchange service - replacing mini SIM with micro SIM. And it's totally FREE. Exuberated with the possible peace deal on the crisis. I head to the nearest Telstra shop on Saturday morning. A Telstra sale representative almost hands me the new ring - a new micro SIM card, then suddenly he asks who is the new bride. I tell him it's Samsung Galaxy Note 2, he starts shaking his head - "Telstra can't move your plan from a tablet to mobile phone. You need buy a new mobile phone plan. Here is a plan for you type people taste - a minimal $60 per month plan, you get SAME 1GB data, but $600 phone call and unlimited messages". I want to tell this sale person stop bullshitting me and please bugger off. Tablet and smartphone are the SAME. The size doesn't matter. Only Telstra makes people life difficulty matter. I don't want to change my current $29 plan. And I'm a human beings hater. I don't have friends. I don't need to make phone call or SMS to anyone at all. Pissed off, grunted but refuse to give up, I head to another Telstra shop 20km down to the slum, reminding me if asked who's the new bride, just say iPad. Half an hour later. I'm in the second Telstra shop. This time the Telstra sale person doesn't bother asking who's the new bride, but neither he does want to waste a micro SIM card on me. He reaches his hands under the table. I think he is going to take out scissors, paper template, tape and do the trick in front me. Instead, he takes out a stapler like thingy. It's a stainless steel micro SIM card cutter - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250944318935. Put my mini SIM card in, and punch it, I get a cut-off micro SIM 10 seconds later. Thanks God, human beings you invented are smart! Back home, put micro SIM card into Note 2, boot it up. No error to recognise the micro SIM. Good. It finds the Telstra carrier, can make phone call, send and receive SMS message. Better. However, there is NO internet, there is no 3G flash icon on the notification bar. Bugger. Sweated now, try to figure out what's wrong. I use the type and glue the micro SIM back to the mini SIM, put it into Tablet 7 and boot up. Internet on Tablet 7 still works. Writing down the mobile networks setting, most important parts, Access Point Names (APNs). Take the SIM card out put it into Note 2, setting up as same APN settings as Tablet 7 manually, reboot a few times, still doesn't work. Holy shit. Telstra must have different settings for the different devices. Disgustingly and desperately, I shoot the final shot before I surrender myself to Telstra. The coming across Telstra Mobile Phone Set-up site - http://www.configure.telstra.com.au/telstra/index.jsp, a help yourself service allows you to set up your compatible Telstra mobile phone for BigPond Mobile Services, Picture and Video Messaging (MMS), e-mail on your phone. Basically, you input your mobile number at first, Telstra will send a security code to your number by SMS. After verify the security code, you are ready to set up mobile phone manufacturer, your phone model from a thousand phone model under Samsung. Though Note 2 is not in the long list, it won't stop me this time bravely select Galaxy Note as the candidate. Then select "MMS" and "Mobile Internet" in Telstra Settings options, two notifications sent to Note 2, with the APNs settings. Android Notification service recognises them, asking to click on Install button inside the notifications. APNs settings are automatically setup in Note 2.  Reboot Note 2 again. Everything works ... Telstra Internet APN: Telstra.wap Proxy: 010.001.001.181 Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: default,supl Bearer: Unspecified Telstra MMS APN: Telstra.mms MMSC: http://mmsc.telstra.com:8002 MMS Proxy: 010.001.001.181 MMS Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: mms Bearer: Unspecified Samsung Galaxy Note 2: $588.00 Battery Cover Leather Flip Case: $15.50 Anti Glare matte screen protector: $1.95 Carry on with your life and refuse big monopoly's ransom for your freedom from sin, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniApple has already started going downhill. — Is Android finally starting to take hold of the market in Australia? Interestingly the web stats for our student facing apps at Unimelb still show a very high proportion of iOS compared to Android.  So younger people are firmly entrenched with the iPhone & iPad?  We're talking more than 90% of visitors with mobile devices being iOS in the past 12 months. http://ausdroid.net/2012/12/12/android-overtakes-ios-in-australian-usage/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni People should die with decency. That means dinner with great meal and drink at happy hours. No one expects run out food and an empty refrigerator. — Stock up before this Friday, when the Mayans predict the world will end A friendly remind that you should prepare for the worst on Dec 21st 2012 which is only two days away: • Stockpiking enough food, bulk buying water at least for a month when Aldi and Coles are on heavy discount right now. • Fullfilling your run away car tank as petrol price in Melbourne is only 135.9 cent per liter today. • Selling all your stocks, redeeming all your managed fund when Aussie market hits 2012 high right now. • Kindly stop making phone call, SMS, sending email, posting on G+, Facebook on Dec 21st which would scare people's shit out ... Fingers acrossed. Hopefylly world could survive the Armageddon. Everyone could safely back to work on next Monday. Amen.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak No worries, government will still be functional and will look after your home loan, in other word, make sure you are not default even your bank closed down or on doomsday. — Stock up before this Friday, when the Mayans predict the world will end A friendly remind that you should prepare for the worst on Dec 21st 2012 which is only two days away: • Stockpiking enough food, bulk buying water at least for a month when Aldi and Coles are on heavy discount right now. • Fullfilling your run away car tank as petrol price in Melbourne is only 135.9 cent per liter today. • Selling all your stocks, redeeming all your managed fund when Aussie market hits 2012 high right now. • Kindly stop making phone call, SMS, sending email, posting on G+, Facebook on Dec 21st which would scare people's shit out ... Fingers acrossed. Hopefylly world could survive the Armageddon. Everyone could safely back to work on next Monday. Amen.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne of the Jetty design mottoes has been: Don't put your application into Jetty, put Jetty into your Application. — Pro Spring development mostly choose Tomcat as the web container. Tomcat is lighter and more agile if developers try to avoid huge, heavier, full blow version JEE server. However, one thing missing in Tomcat, and I really miss a lot in big O's OC4J and Weblogic is the management and monitor tools.  Admin interface in Tomcat is shambolic and useless. You have to tail and trace the log to understand exact problem where is. So more hardcore developers go for the low maintenance, less configuration, easily clustered Jetty instead. Anyway, this is another debate or a new war Tomcat vs. Jetty. Now, turn to Java Melody, an easily setup and integrated with your existing Java web application tool, let you monitor application's performance, configuration, JVM inside, SQL connection, cache, application error and warning ... Java Melody is the tool web application development must have. Read more on pictures: http://code.google.com/p/javamelody/wiki/Screenshots
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYour smartphone represents your personality. Be very careful when you choose your next smartphone! — I was thinking about consumerist issues recently seeing all the stores are trying to lure me to buy as Christmas approaches.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy Couldn't find the pre-paid deal you have. The latest pre-paid plan for Telstra mobile is from $30 you get 400MB data. Your plan and my plan I reckon were registered during Telstra prompted its mobile business on a heavy discount. Old good time no more. +Kieran Simpson Galaxy Tab maybe already dead to Samsung, but I want to keep this old pal alive. Going to put CyanogenMod on it. Maybe CM9 (ICS). CM10 (Jelly Bean) is still not very stable. After two years the battery can't hold longer any more, and it's not replaceable. Otherwise it's still a good condition smartphone that could let me run a few experiential things. Will write a review after it's Cyanogenmoded. — A hacker's guide to Telstra mobile phone service Marriage seems unexplainable complicated these days. After two years with my Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first ever generation tablet 7", both of us are tired. The tablet is getting older, slower and grumpy, refusing to be mature like, still staying in Android 2.2 and committing suicide (self-reboot) several times a day.  Now younger and sexier mail-ordered bride - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 arrived after one week long journey from Hong Kong on Friday. However, the new life just starts with a big bang. All the preparation work for the wedding look good. Bridal clothing, shoes and accessories for the big formal occasion are making the day even more special. Connecting Note 2 to home WiFi, Android 4.1.1 guides you step by step, downloading all the latest applications you installed on Tablet 7 before to Note 2, saving your tons of time install them one by one. After two hours without any argument, about 1GB data, all original applications downloaded and installed. The new bride dresses up like old bride in the gown. Then disharmony starts.  New bride refuses to wear the engagement ring which taken off from old bride's finger. The mini SIM card from Tablet 7 can't put on Note 2's micro SIM finger. Thank you, you bloody over regulated European Telecommunications Standards, and Apple made it even popular. No SIM, no internet, no wedding, and can't get to anywhere. Quickly I jump on Google to find out any peace deal solving engagement ring's crisis. No surprise, a few married people on internet teach their experience how to solve the crisis - with a bit help of scissors, paper template, tape. You can D.I.Y., cutting min SIM into micro SIM. Unfortunately, no one of them offer any kind of warranty what if failed. Hmmm, too risky, most probably make the SIM not functional working after the cut if you don't give any practice. But fortunately, at the end of day, find on the Telstra forum, some more experienced married people talk about back to the jewellery store - Telstra shop, you could ask exchange service - replacing mini SIM with micro SIM. And it's totally FREE. Exuberated with the possible peace deal on the crisis. I head to the nearest Telstra shop on Saturday morning. A Telstra sale representative almost hands me the new ring - a new micro SIM card, then suddenly he asks who is the new bride. I tell him it's Samsung Galaxy Note 2, he starts shaking his head - "Telstra can't move your plan from a tablet to mobile phone. You need buy a new mobile phone plan. Here is a plan for you type people taste - a minimal $60 per month plan, you get SAME 1GB data, but $600 phone call and unlimited messages". I want to tell this sale person stop bullshitting me and please bugger off. Tablet and smartphone are the SAME. The size doesn't matter. Only Telstra makes people life difficulty matter. I don't want to change my current $29 plan. And I'm a human beings hater. I don't have friends. I don't need to make phone call or SMS to anyone at all. Pissed off, grunted but refuse to give up, I head to another Telstra shop 20km down to the slum, reminding me if asked who's the new bride, just say iPad. Half an hour later. I'm in the second Telstra shop. This time the Telstra sale person doesn't bother asking who's the new bride, but neither he does want to waste a micro SIM card on me. He reaches his hands under the table. I think he is going to take out scissors, paper template, tape and do the trick in front me. Instead, he takes out a stapler like thingy. It's a stainless steel micro SIM card cutter - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250944318935. Put my mini SIM card in, and punch it, I get a cut-off micro SIM 10 seconds later. Thanks God, human beings you invented are smart! Back home, put micro SIM card into Note 2, boot it up. No error to recognise the micro SIM. Good. It finds the Telstra carrier, can make phone call, send and receive SMS message. Better. However, there is NO internet, there is no 3G flash icon on the notification bar. Bugger. Sweated now, try to figure out what's wrong. I use the type and glue the micro SIM back to the mini SIM, put it into Tablet 7 and boot up. Internet on Tablet 7 still works. Writing down the mobile networks setting, most important parts, Access Point Names (APNs). Take the SIM card out put it into Note 2, setting up as same APN settings as Tablet 7 manually, reboot a few times, still doesn't work. Holy shit. Telstra must have different settings for the different devices. Disgustingly and desperately, I shoot the final shot before I surrender myself to Telstra. The coming across Telstra Mobile Phone Set-up site - http://www.configure.telstra.com.au/telstra/index.jsp, a help yourself service allows you to set up your compatible Telstra mobile phone for BigPond Mobile Services, Picture and Video Messaging (MMS), e-mail on your phone. Basically, you input your mobile number at first, Telstra will send a security code to your number by SMS. After verify the security code, you are ready to set up mobile phone manufacturer, your phone model from a thousand phone model under Samsung. Though Note 2 is not in the long list, it won't stop me this time bravely select Galaxy Note as the candidate. Then select "MMS" and "Mobile Internet" in Telstra Settings options, two notifications sent to Note 2, with the APNs settings. Android Notification service recognises them, asking to click on Install button inside the notifications. APNs settings are automatically setup in Note 2.  Reboot Note 2 again. Everything works ... Telstra Internet APN: Telstra.wap Proxy: 010.001.001.181 Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: default,supl Bearer: Unspecified Telstra MMS APN: Telstra.mms MMSC: http://mmsc.telstra.com:8002 MMS Proxy: 010.001.001.181 MMS Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: mms Bearer: Unspecified Samsung Galaxy Note 2: $588.00 Battery Cover Leather Flip Case: $15.50 Anti Glare matte screen protector: $1.95 Carry on with your life and refuse big monopoly's ransom for your freedom from sin, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI reckon the best comment of +James Gemmell's very conservative smartphone actually is from Mr. J himself.  "If I try to run two apps at the same time, phone will crash with Out-Of-Memory exception". — I was thinking about consumerist issues recently seeing all the stores are trying to lure me to buy as Christmas approaches.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniPossible to get a valid certificate on less cost, if you don't use web to access email? — Google conspiracy?? Why does my gripe about the Gmail SSL changes not appear in my 'Home' timeline, despite it being set to all my circles & 'public'?  Does it appear in anyone else's 'Home' timeline??  I can only find it when I click my profile. https://plus.google.com/u/0/100262877374602766225/posts/RrLgABeJXbY
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPrefer Samsung Galaxy Note 2 over other smartphones due to hook on the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, connect it the monitor via MHL to HDMI cable, you turn Note 2 into a PC. A faster, high performance PC. Maybe it's RISC quad core processor, Mali-400MP GPU plus hardware video accelerator, video performance looks better, smoothy, natural than play the same video on my Windows 7 laptop. The performance of smartphones today can match PC rivals but only on a tiny power consumption. Easily to insert your smartphone into the pants' ass pocket and walk around. How embarrassing if you try to insert a laptop or netbook into the same back-end pocket.  — A hacker's guide to Telstra mobile phone service Marriage seems unexplainable complicated these days. After two years with my Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first ever generation tablet 7", both of us are tired. The tablet is getting older, slower and grumpy, refusing to be mature like, still staying in Android 2.2 and committing suicide (self-reboot) several times a day.  Now younger and sexier mail-ordered bride - Samsung Galaxy Note 2 arrived after one week long journey from Hong Kong on Friday. However, the new life just starts with a big bang. All the preparation work for the wedding look good. Bridal clothing, shoes and accessories for the big formal occasion are making the day even more special. Connecting Note 2 to home WiFi, Android 4.1.1 guides you step by step, downloading all the latest applications you installed on Tablet 7 before to Note 2, saving your tons of time install them one by one. After two hours without any argument, about 1GB data, all original applications downloaded and installed. The new bride dresses up like old bride in the gown. Then disharmony starts.  New bride refuses to wear the engagement ring which taken off from old bride's finger. The mini SIM card from Tablet 7 can't put on Note 2's micro SIM finger. Thank you, you bloody over regulated European Telecommunications Standards, and Apple made it even popular. No SIM, no internet, no wedding, and can't get to anywhere. Quickly I jump on Google to find out any peace deal solving engagement ring's crisis. No surprise, a few married people on internet teach their experience how to solve the crisis - with a bit help of scissors, paper template, tape. You can D.I.Y., cutting min SIM into micro SIM. Unfortunately, no one of them offer any kind of warranty what if failed. Hmmm, too risky, most probably make the SIM not functional working after the cut if you don't give any practice. But fortunately, at the end of day, find on the Telstra forum, some more experienced married people talk about back to the jewellery store - Telstra shop, you could ask exchange service - replacing mini SIM with micro SIM. And it's totally FREE. Exuberated with the possible peace deal on the crisis. I head to the nearest Telstra shop on Saturday morning. A Telstra sale representative almost hands me the new ring - a new micro SIM card, then suddenly he asks who is the new bride. I tell him it's Samsung Galaxy Note 2, he starts shaking his head - "Telstra can't move your plan from a tablet to mobile phone. You need buy a new mobile phone plan. Here is a plan for you type people taste - a minimal $60 per month plan, you get SAME 1GB data, but $600 phone call and unlimited messages". I want to tell this sale person stop bullshitting me and please bugger off. Tablet and smartphone are the SAME. The size doesn't matter. Only Telstra makes people life difficulty matter. I don't want to change my current $29 plan. And I'm a human beings hater. I don't have friends. I don't need to make phone call or SMS to anyone at all. Pissed off, grunted but refuse to give up, I head to another Telstra shop 20km down to the slum, reminding me if asked who's the new bride, just say iPad. Half an hour later. I'm in the second Telstra shop. This time the Telstra sale person doesn't bother asking who's the new bride, but neither he does want to waste a micro SIM card on me. He reaches his hands under the table. I think he is going to take out scissors, paper template, tape and do the trick in front me. Instead, he takes out a stapler like thingy. It's a stainless steel micro SIM card cutter - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/250944318935. Put my mini SIM card in, and punch it, I get a cut-off micro SIM 10 seconds later. Thanks God, human beings you invented are smart! Back home, put micro SIM card into Note 2, boot it up. No error to recognise the micro SIM. Good. It finds the Telstra carrier, can make phone call, send and receive SMS message. Better. However, there is NO internet, there is no 3G flash icon on the notification bar. Bugger. Sweated now, try to figure out what's wrong. I use the type and glue the micro SIM back to the mini SIM, put it into Tablet 7 and boot up. Internet on Tablet 7 still works. Writing down the mobile networks setting, most important parts, Access Point Names (APNs). Take the SIM card out put it into Note 2, setting up as same APN settings as Tablet 7 manually, reboot a few times, still doesn't work. Holy shit. Telstra must have different settings for the different devices. Disgustingly and desperately, I shoot the final shot before I surrender myself to Telstra. The coming across Telstra Mobile Phone Set-up site - http://www.configure.telstra.com.au/telstra/index.jsp, a help yourself service allows you to set up your compatible Telstra mobile phone for BigPond Mobile Services, Picture and Video Messaging (MMS), e-mail on your phone. Basically, you input your mobile number at first, Telstra will send a security code to your number by SMS. After verify the security code, you are ready to set up mobile phone manufacturer, your phone model from a thousand phone model under Samsung. Though Note 2 is not in the long list, it won't stop me this time bravely select Galaxy Note as the candidate. Then select "MMS" and "Mobile Internet" in Telstra Settings options, two notifications sent to Note 2, with the APNs settings. Android Notification service recognises them, asking to click on Install button inside the notifications. APNs settings are automatically setup in Note 2.  Reboot Note 2 again. Everything works ... Telstra Internet APN: Telstra.wap Proxy: 010.001.001.181 Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: default,supl Bearer: Unspecified Telstra MMS APN: Telstra.mms MMSC: http://mmsc.telstra.com:8002 MMS Proxy: 010.001.001.181 MMS Port: 80 MCC: 505 MNC: 01 Authentication type: PAP APN type: mms Bearer: Unspecified Samsung Galaxy Note 2: $588.00 Battery Cover Leather Flip Case: $15.50 Anti Glare matte screen protector: $1.95 Carry on with your life and refuse big monopoly's ransom for your freedom from sin, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsakand Permanent Denial Services — +Martin Paulo +Dean Budd +Terrence Miao +James Gemmell +Casper Casper +Alex Megremis  I never had my own consulting practice, but today suddenly I got an idea for a boutique IT/SD consulting company name I may offer my service under: "Brute Force Solutions" ;))
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSpring Data JPA could be seamlessly integrated with Spring but also can run outside Spring framework, no dependence on Spring. Impressed. — Spring Data builds traditional relational databases backed application with LESS CODE; supports new data access technologies NoSQL, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services; builds big-data pipelines with Spring Batch and Spring Integration.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI have already started wars vi vs. emacs, Eclipse vs. IntelliJ, HG vs. Git, Perforce vs. Subversion, Android vs. iOS, Java vs. Groovy, won't mind add another one in my warmonger's bag :-) — Spring Data builds traditional relational databases backed application with LESS CODE; supports new data access technologies NoSQL, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services; builds big-data pipelines with Spring Batch and Spring Integration.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.prad.de/en/monitore/review/2012/review-dell-u2713hm.html — +Kieran Simpson +Martin Paulo  Sitting in front of my tiny MacBook Pro 13" screen and a gigantic Dell 27" ISP panel at the moment.  I've noticed Kogan sneakily lifted the price its monitor to $439, plus $17 shipment cost. Though Kogan's monitor uses the same panel as Apple's cinema display, but after read through different sourced reviews, I believe Kogan's monitor is the panel failed quality test and rejected by Apple and Dell. Also I try to contact Kogan then find out it doesn't have customer service hotline. Email is the only way to reach them. Also I couldn't find out where the company office located. Hmmm, smells fishy and sounds doggy ...  On the other hand, Dell offers next day delivery, shipped from Sydney to arrived to my home in Melbourne, plus zero dead pixel tolerant and replacement policy, 3 years next business day advanced exchange warranty. I'm quite happy to pay $100 more for this kind of "luxury". Another thing Dell monitor plenty of input choices including 1 HDMI, 1 DVI-D (with HDCP), 1 DisplayPort, 1 VGA port, ideal for use with multiple devices at the same time. Full resolution 2560x1440 achieved by a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connecting Dell monitor and MBP. • Dell 2713HM monitor including shipment: $559.30 • mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable: $14.90 • Apple Tax: $0 Making your computer more fun to use and more functional, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhen traditional relational database hits the wall, our application just hammered down by the degraded database performance. Looking for an alternative solution - NoSQL, Big Data. Spring Data offers the express to the destination.  — Spring Data builds traditional relational databases backed application with LESS CODE; supports new data access technologies NoSQL, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services; builds big-data pipelines with Spring Batch and Spring Integration.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyFengshui says 12.12.12 is good time to engage and get married, ... , same as last year's 11.11.11, and the year before last year 10.10.10, but definitely not next year 13, and the year after next year 14, pronunciation like "go to die" in Chinese language.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Yep, that's I finished Ada programming course in Uni and coded with nothing in Ada ever since.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Thunderbolt may be capable of some impressive speeds, but Apple and Intel run the risk of the technology quickly becoming a dead end if Apple remains the only vendor for Thunderbolt-equipped computers as well as Thunderbolt cables. Greater third-party support will be the key to the broad market adoption needed to support Thunderbolt in the years to come." — +Kieran Simpson +Martin Paulo  Sitting in front of my tiny MacBook Pro 13" screen and a gigantic Dell 27" ISP panel at the moment.  I've noticed Kogan sneakily lifted the price its monitor to $439, plus $17 shipment cost. Though Kogan's monitor uses the same panel as Apple's cinema display, but after read through different sourced reviews, I believe Kogan's monitor is the panel failed quality test and rejected by Apple and Dell. Also I try to contact Kogan then find out it doesn't have customer service hotline. Email is the only way to reach them. Also I couldn't find out where the company office located. Hmmm, smells fishy and sounds doggy ...  On the other hand, Dell offers next day delivery, shipped from Sydney to arrived to my home in Melbourne, plus zero dead pixel tolerant and replacement policy, 3 years next business day advanced exchange warranty. I'm quite happy to pay $100 more for this kind of "luxury". Another thing Dell monitor plenty of input choices including 1 HDMI, 1 DVI-D (with HDCP), 1 DisplayPort, 1 VGA port, ideal for use with multiple devices at the same time. Full resolution 2560x1440 achieved by a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connecting Dell monitor and MBP. • Dell 2713HM monitor including shipment: $559.30 • mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable: $14.90 • Apple Tax: $0 Making your computer more fun to use and more functional, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson I have to keep moving head from side to side on ONE 27" display. I don't know how you could manage TWO 27" screens. Every head move and re-focus reduce your 0.5 second in productivity. — +Kieran Simpson +Martin Paulo  Sitting in front of my tiny MacBook Pro 13" screen and a gigantic Dell 27" ISP panel at the moment.  I've noticed Kogan sneakily lifted the price its monitor to $439, plus $17 shipment cost. Though Kogan's monitor uses the same panel as Apple's cinema display, but after read through different sourced reviews, I believe Kogan's monitor is the panel failed quality test and rejected by Apple and Dell. Also I try to contact Kogan then find out it doesn't have customer service hotline. Email is the only way to reach them. Also I couldn't find out where the company office located. Hmmm, smells fishy and sounds doggy ...  On the other hand, Dell offers next day delivery, shipped from Sydney to arrived to my home in Melbourne, plus zero dead pixel tolerant and replacement policy, 3 years next business day advanced exchange warranty. I'm quite happy to pay $100 more for this kind of "luxury". Another thing Dell monitor plenty of input choices including 1 HDMI, 1 DVI-D (with HDCP), 1 DisplayPort, 1 VGA port, ideal for use with multiple devices at the same time. Full resolution 2560x1440 achieved by a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable connecting Dell monitor and MBP. • Dell 2713HM monitor including shipment: $559.30 • mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable: $14.90 • Apple Tax: $0 Making your computer more fun to use and more functional, priceless ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHave Cargo plugin for Maven, replacing Tomcat plugin, used to start / stop Tomcat in Selenium test. Cargo is a good tool, but patchy documentation. Took a while to make it work as way I want. — Continues Delivery - Build true pipelines with Jenkins Last few days, I built a pipeline delivery solution for the project, based on open source Jenkins and its vast plugins arsenal. The goal is after developers checked in their codes, the rest of work in development cycle is ALL in automatic fashion, or out-source to someone else rather than developers themselves. Using Subversion, Jenkins checks out codes soon after developers commit. Five pipelins show the progress - build, unit test, integration and functional test, code quality insurance wih Sonar, till the last stage deployment which is the only manual step involve human being, no need to be super intelligent, involve in. At the start of each pipeline build shows SVN revision number. Any test failed, developers can trace down which revision causes the failure, and who did it. This prevents blaming game or dog-fighting among developers. Both developers and testers watch the pipelines screen. When the drop time or hot fix come in, testers just need to find out which SVN revision they care about, check the pipeline matches this revision number has passed ALL the test, then trigger the deployment button, last stage of the pipeline of each successfully build, input ONLY environment testers want to deploy, the automatic deployment script will grab the already build artifaces and deploy them to DEV, SIT, SVT, PRE-PROD, whatever you could name ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd lucky we have Tomcat in dev, sit, svt environment, except production in big O's weblogic.  plink, pscp tool on windows, calling startup and shutdown scripts in Tomcat (have to, to keep copy of old release).  — Continues Delivery - Build true pipelines with Jenkins Last few days, I built a pipeline delivery solution for the project, based on open source Jenkins and its vast plugins arsenal. The goal is after developers checked in their codes, the rest of work in development cycle is ALL in automatic fashion, or out-source to someone else rather than developers themselves. Using Subversion, Jenkins checks out codes soon after developers commit. Five pipelins show the progress - build, unit test, integration and functional test, code quality insurance wih Sonar, till the last stage deployment which is the only manual step involve human being, no need to be super intelligent, involve in. At the start of each pipeline build shows SVN revision number. Any test failed, developers can trace down which revision causes the failure, and who did it. This prevents blaming game or dog-fighting among developers. Both developers and testers watch the pipelines screen. When the drop time or hot fix come in, testers just need to find out which SVN revision they care about, check the pipeline matches this revision number has passed ALL the test, then trigger the deployment button, last stage of the pipeline of each successfully build, input ONLY environment testers want to deploy, the automatic deployment script will grab the already build artifaces and deploy them to DEV, SIT, SVT, PRE-PROD, whatever you could name ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Choose Jenkins because of run out license number of Teamcity. Bamboo is another option which integrated with Atlassian's JIRA and Wiki but I haven't seen any project using it. Like Jenkins' master and slave design, distributing build and test tasks to any slave node when it's available. Basically, you can created unlimited slave nodes, in virtual machine environment, as your project grows. CI is the only reliable source I could trust the codes. And it's the infrastructure of development super highway should be built at ever first before starting test and production codes. — Continues Delivery - Build true pipelines with Jenkins Last few days, I built a pipeline delivery solution for the project, based on open source Jenkins and its vast plugins arsenal. The goal is after developers checked in their codes, the rest of work in development cycle is ALL in automatic fashion, or out-source to someone else rather than developers themselves. Using Subversion, Jenkins checks out codes soon after developers commit. Five pipelins show the progress - build, unit test, integration and functional test, code quality insurance wih Sonar, till the last stage deployment which is the only manual step involve human being, no need to be super intelligent, involve in. At the start of each pipeline build shows SVN revision number. Any test failed, developers can trace down which revision causes the failure, and who did it. This prevents blaming game or dog-fighting among developers. Both developers and testers watch the pipelines screen. When the drop time or hot fix come in, testers just need to find out which SVN revision they care about, check the pipeline matches this revision number has passed ALL the test, then trigger the deployment button, last stage of the pipeline of each successfully build, input ONLY environment testers want to deploy, the automatic deployment script will grab the already build artifaces and deploy them to DEV, SIT, SVT, PRE-PROD, whatever you could name ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd slow performance, user experience, what ux? "We don't often test our code. We modify and update our code in the Production". This is the amazing practice I experienced in Ultranet project. — +Bryan Murphy Bryan and I had worked on Ultranet project for more than 7 months. It's very disappointed to see the project you spent day and night is doomed to fail.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy Agree. The initiative from the state government is good, but had badly, terribly executed and implemented by the slick consulting firm who never takes its reputation and integrity seriously. +Kieran Simpson Ultranet project is not a gigantic one, though it is supposed used by thousands but not millions students, teachers and parents. Mind you, I experienced some very unprofessional practices , may I say weasels, during the development which I had raised question how this could work. Let me wonder what work ethic an employeer is looking for ... — +Bryan Murphy Bryan and I had worked on Ultranet project for more than 7 months. It's very disappointed to see the project you spent day and night is doomed to fail.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI'd like to see moving from Subversion to pro Git, but this doesn't likely till a strong argument. Mind you, some projects hosted in JIRA's Subversion - http://www.atlassian.com/software/ondemand/overview. Integrated with Atlassian's wiki and issue management, basically you can do your work at any place, not only in office. — Continues Delivery - Build true pipelines with Jenkins Last few days, I built a pipeline delivery solution for the project, based on open source Jenkins and its vast plugins arsenal. The goal is after developers checked in their codes, the rest of work in development cycle is ALL in automatic fashion, or out-source to someone else rather than developers themselves. Using Subversion, Jenkins checks out codes soon after developers commit. Five pipelins show the progress - build, unit test, integration and functional test, code quality insurance wih Sonar, till the last stage deployment which is the only manual step involve human being, no need to be super intelligent, involve in. At the start of each pipeline build shows SVN revision number. Any test failed, developers can trace down which revision causes the failure, and who did it. This prevents blaming game or dog-fighting among developers. Both developers and testers watch the pipelines screen. When the drop time or hot fix come in, testers just need to find out which SVN revision they care about, check the pipeline matches this revision number has passed ALL the test, then trigger the deployment button, last stage of the pipeline of each successfully build, input ONLY environment testers want to deploy, the automatic deployment script will grab the already build artifaces and deploy them to DEV, SIT, SVT, PRE-PROD, whatever you could name ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry, let me 100% honest to you - the fact in the report is TRUE.  — +Bryan Murphy Bryan and I had worked on Ultranet project for more than 7 months. It's very disappointed to see the project you spent day and night is doomed to fail.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao''By June 2013, Ultranet will have cost up to $38 million more than the $60.5 million announced by the then government in 2006 and it will have delivered less functionality than originally planned.'' ''It's considered a bit of a joke to be honest, people don't take it seriously,'' Mr Cotching said. ''It hasn't got the confidence of the profession, people have found it slow and cumbersome.'' — +Bryan Murphy Bryan and I had worked on Ultranet project for more than 7 months. It's very disappointed to see the project you spent day and night is doomed to fail.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIntelliJ 12 features the darker side of productive coding - Darcula interface, significantly faster complier, support survive Java 8, the most important is built-in UI designer for Android development. Hopefully, Webstorm also included. Yes, LIVE EDIT ULTIMATE. — IT HAS ARRIVED! <gets credit card out>
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAccording to the "Rule of least power", or Atwood's Law, a design principle which "in web programming, suggests choosing the least powerful computer language suitable for a given purpose". Stated alternatively, given a choice among computer languages, classes of which range from descriptive (or declarative) to procedural, the less procedural, more descriptive the language one chooses, the more one can do with the data stored in that language. — Quote of the day - "Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript." - Jeff Atwood
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThanks for the greatest program ever written, a chess game developed by David Horne, running on Sinclair ZX81, uses only 672 bytes, about four and a half tweets today! — Wow. The video's are already coming up. +Martin Paulo , I would highly recommend watching this entertaining talk from Kevlin Henney Forget Clean Code... check out some Cool Code! =)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMicrosoft becomes irrelevant.  — The realms of GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) by David Parkins The battle lines between the four large companies seen as dominating the consumer internet — Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — are in furious flux.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Tennis becomes more enjoyable if play attacking and aggressive tennis.  — ATP World Tour Uncovered - Top 10 Hot Shots 2012
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Justin Gan You can't be serious. — ATP World Tour Uncovered - Top 10 Hot Shots 2012
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Downing +Jarny Choi +Alan Lu Unless you have watched every ATP match. Not every hot shot showed on TV. — ATP World Tour Uncovered - Top 10 Hot Shots 2012
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak does Google own the word "Nexus"? — Gentlemen, definitely today is the day of some awesome good news! Ladies, mmm... _<not sure how to address the ladies on this news yet>... http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Pheromones-Attract-Instantly-Cologne/dp/B004UG0KH8/ref=sr_1_72?ie=UTF8&qid=1354239583&sr=8-72&keywords=nexus+4
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakI trust every Google product's quality. Every Google product must have been went through those strict and complete test, fully, thoroughly and internally got Google employees satisfactory before announced and released to public ... — Gentlemen, definitely today is the day of some awesome good news! Ladies, mmm... _<not sure how to address the ladies on this news yet>... http://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Pheromones-Attract-Instantly-Cologne/dp/B004UG0KH8/ref=sr_1_72?ie=UTF8&qid=1354239583&sr=8-72&keywords=nexus+4
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot very impressed with this Open Space Community night. About nine sessions, topics like "Cool work on / over internet", making me feeling there is another internet bubble is coming; "how to hire good and great", good developers are working for Facebook, great are in Google. Only interesting and attracting session I reckon is "functional programming in Haskell". Two guys drawing the Monad and Comonad semantics and how to use them heavily ... From all the feeds +Dean Budd and +Kieran Simpson , more good sessions are in conference, but not in this free event night. Without the free beer and salty, fatty pizza, it would be totally time wasted. Bumped into Bryan. He showed me his latest purchased Google Nexus 10. Basically, it's a Samsung tablet, but only at half the price. Stunning beautiful screen. I like multiple users feature in Android 4.2 very very much. — Any of your guys attend this week's YOW! conference? Thinking to go to Open Space Community night, a free event on Wednesday night. Maybe bump into your guys there. Cheers.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAussie's sense of humour ... — Just see a huge advertising banner towed by a helicopter in the sky above Melbourne CBD says: Sexpo On Now
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFrom a newspaper one step away from trash bin. — Aesthetic images of Melbourne city's timeline. Read more: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/then-and-now
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Martin Paulo Marty, you need this cable to get 27" monitor displayed in full 2560x1440 resolution: http://www.macfixit.com.au/cables-adapters/mini-displayport-displayport-cables-adapters/high-speed-mini-displayport-thunderbolt-to-displayport-cable-3ft.html The monitor must equipped with DisplayPort input. DVI-D input only monitor won't work in maximum resolution with MacBook Pro Mini DisplayPort. — Who needs an Apple monitor, 'ey +Terrence Miao 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDouble checked my refurbished MacBook Pro 13" (Oct 2011 version). It has thunderbolt port. But won't take Apple TB monitor, price tag $1200, for consideration. — Who needs an Apple monitor, 'ey +Terrence Miao 
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson +Martin Paulo +Bryan Murphy K, you must have known I'm going to buy monitors before Xmas. Did some research last few days. Under the same spec: 27", 2560x1440 resolution, IPS or PLS panel Dell UltraSharp U2713HM on 30% discount $559 - http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=au&cs=audhs1&l=en&s=dhs&sku=210-40773&redirect=1 Samsung S27A850 $555 - http://www.cplonline.com.au/monitors/27-samsung-s27a850-2560x1440-dual-link-dvi-dp-h-adjust-usb2.html On the train home, read your post and checked the price, I told Bryan I'm going to buy two. Bryan did a quick product review and found on eBay same Kogan style monitor - CROSSOVER NEW 27QD LED BLADE is selling for $360. I couldn't hold my excitement and yelled "buy 4"! Back home I found another bargain selling for $299 + free postage from South Korea - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/27-Inch-Matrix-NEO-LED-270WQ-IPS-2560x1440-WQHD-Quad-HD-Monitor-/150866229599?pt=AU_comp_monitor&hash=item232053f95f&_uhb=1#ht_19904wt_906 What the heck? $300 should worthy of a bet. 12 months later maybe you could buy the Samsung one at the SAME price! — Who needs an Apple monitor, 'ey +Terrence Miao 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOn the train home with Bryan now after YOW! Open Space night. Will back you something more interesting soon. Cheers. — Who needs an Apple monitor, 'ey +Terrence Miao 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSend your complete blue-ray movie over in one email attachment. — 10GB Email Attachments have arrived!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWindows 8 will pick up, people run on a PC, want to someone to be blamed although their own wrong-doing, there is no other better choice than Microsoft's products. BTW, I have a laptop with Windows 7 on it. This is the most stable Windows I experienced. Crashed a few time, only need to reboot every 3 or 4 weeks, and never I have to reformat, reinstall Windows after crash. ALL major commercial apps and big games run on Windows, one brilliant thing MS done. — A much needed shot-in-the-arm for Linux?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAu contraire, I quite like Windows 8 Metro interface, clean and simple, maybe due to I played with Windows Phone 7 before.  I played Windows 8 in JB-HiFi during the lunch break last few days. I admit working in MS Office on a 27" touch screen is bizzarre. But Metro interface is still good on smartphone and tablet. One thing is you need have mobile application like applications in. Another thing is game. If Microsoft could let people play XBox games on smartphone and tablet running Windows 8, Microsoft will have trump card in the sleeve.  — A much needed shot-in-the-arm for Linux?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRemind me that big O's Fusion can't handle more 8 characters password. +James Gemmell any insider reviews and comments? — Dear NAB, Why did you need to chop-off my password? If you used to enter more than 8 characters for your password and have not changed it in the last week, please only use the first 8 characters of your password to log in. Read more: http://www.nab.com.au/cgi-bin/ib/301_start.pl?browser=correct
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper TIBCO people are highly skilled professionals who could demand big money, because they sit in the middle of enterprise soltuion. They charge toll or ransom on all the traffic go through intergration layer. Without them, your company is separatist organisation and fighting civil war all time. — TIBCO Introduction Attend a workshop presented by a TIBCO architect today, from TIBCO history to its latest development in Enterprise scope.  Basically, from an Oracle Fusion user's perspective, TIBCO is a light version of integration solution, friendly, robust and performance well above its peers. Everything in TIBCO integration solution is developed in Java, but for TIBCO designers and developers, there is NO CODING. You just drag and drop the icons then job is done, which I reckon is very smart. So maybe that's why TIBCO people reckon they are more artists than blue collar's coders. Now, come to the highlight of the presentation.  Question asked whether TIBCO could be more Agile. "Well,if we could plan better", answered by this TIBCO guru, "integration work could move very quickly. However TIBCO doesn't fit in Java Domain, it's hard to have Continuous Integration and Continuous Improvement for TIBCO". So the conclusion is "Integration is not compatible with Agile". Just brilliant!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Are you tipping Spring Intergration as one of alternatives to TIBCO though TIBCO is lighter but more expensive than big O's fusion and everything else? How do you do your Enterprise level intergration? Just intergrate your Google address book does't count. — TIBCO Introduction Attend a workshop presented by a TIBCO architect today, from TIBCO history to its latest development in Enterprise scope.  Basically, from an Oracle Fusion user's perspective, TIBCO is a light version of integration solution, friendly, robust and performance well above its peers. Everything in TIBCO integration solution is developed in Java, but for TIBCO designers and developers, there is NO CODING. You just drag and drop the icons then job is done, which I reckon is very smart. So maybe that's why TIBCO people reckon they are more artists than blue collar's coders. Now, come to the highlight of the presentation.  Question asked whether TIBCO could be more Agile. "Well,if we could plan better", answered by this TIBCO guru, "integration work could move very quickly. However TIBCO doesn't fit in Java Domain, it's hard to have Continuous Integration and Continuous Improvement for TIBCO". So the conclusion is "Integration is not compatible with Agile". Just brilliant!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTotally INSANE! According to Economic Skyscraper Index that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns. The recently constructed Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at the moment, also in the index. In October 2009, construction company Emaar announced that it had completed the exterior of the building; within two months, the Dubai government came close to defaulting on its loans.  — • Sky City will stand 2,749 ft tall and have a phenomenal 220 floors • It will house 17,400 people as well as offices, schools and even a hospital • Builders intend to put it up at an amazing five stores a DAY Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2236300/Chinese-company-plans-build-worlds-tallest-skyscraper--just-THREE-MONTHS.html
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Commented on post by Michael Polonihttp://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-enable-lte-on-the-nexus-4-133530/ — Phones & Tablets.  What to buy??? Google have released the next range of Nexus devices.  I'm seriously considering buying ... that is, if Google will put more stock back on the market!!!  The Nexus 4 has already sold out in Australia, and with the 32GB 10s also sold out it surely won't be long before the lesser capacity 16GB are all gone. My current phone is a Nokia N900, purchased in a bit of a hurry when my old Nokia N70 died.  It's served me well, but is ageing ... well, actually it's well passed its use-by date.  It is a slow phone.  Physically it's stood the test of time, and even survived its first accidental "drop test" recently.  Signs of wear can be seen by the flaking off of the buttons on the keyboard. Reviews about the Nexus 4 by LG point to a very capable and more mature Android device.  It looks the goods!  I see the major complaint is a lack of LTE, but at least for me right now this doesn't worry me.  I had been looking at the Samsung SIII, but I think I'm settled on the Nexus 4 now.  Even if I weren't convinced, the price saving is hard to ignore. Perhaps the tough question is on the tablet.  I was surprised to see the older dual-core processor in the Nexus 10 created by Samsung.  Why does the phone have (or need?) better speed than the tablet?  I'd have almost thought it would be the other way around.  The Nexus 10 is however competitively priced; if I was after a strong performer I might look into the Asus Transformer, but it's significantly more expensive and trails the Nexus 10 in screen quality.  The Transformer's detachable keyboard does look useful. So... do I jump?  Buy a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 10? Google - when are you going to put more stock on your shelves?!  They've emptied in less than a week, before I even had time to look!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHmm, too many options, too little choice. Any final thought? — Has anyone used/written a custom OpenID implementation for Authentication?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonEast Werribee is closed to my place. It will bring more traffic clog in Prince freeway and Westgate in the morning rush hour as soon as project kicked in. Over. — Shame noone in power will listen to this.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy OpenID? Have your customers already registered OpenID, or you don't want to set up accounts for them in your app? I worked an application using OAuth 2.0. It supports both authentication and authorisation. Check Google APIs use OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization - https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login — Has anyone used/written a custom OpenID implementation for Authentication?
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Martin Paulo I always wonder whether software development is an unfavourable and labour intensive work for blue collar, or an intelligent work need a lot time thinking than dragging hours in front of monitor.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd"One of my most productive day was throwing away 1000 line of code." - Ken Thompson See, there are productive days when deleting chunk of redundant and duplicated codes, or low formatting the whole hard disk of your PC ...
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd any comments from you about TDD and date with your old girlfriends? — Finally started writing some Java code again.  Started busting out the TDD again (oh how I love Hamcrest matchers).  Clean elegant code.  It's like seeing an old friend again, or as +Terrence Miao might put it; making out with an old girlfriend :p
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOh my dear God, what can I say, how can I describe dating with old girlfriend? It's a bit like holding hands with a man ... Anyway, good to practice with TDD. The biggest challenge is I reckon overcome your old habit that believe developing codes at first is faster than TDD. Mind you, some TDD die-hards write feature test then unit test before write first line of production code. Most developers collapsed after a few iterations of such practice. — Finally started writing some Java code again.  Started busting out the TDD again (oh how I love Hamcrest matchers).  Clean elegant code.  It's like seeing an old friend again, or as +Terrence Miao might put it; making out with an old girlfriend :p
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyDamned Telstra not allow re-use 3G SIM card, have to buy the new device, new SIM card and new plan. — With my birthday fast approaching, I have finally bit the bullet and bought a tablet (well ordered it actually - I have to wait another week to play with it).  I decided to go with the Nexus 10 (16 GB) due to the overall price, value for money, lack of bloatware and quick access to updates.   I decided the 10 inch form factor will suit me best but realise there will be times when I wish it was smaller - but then I will fall back to my trusty Galaxy S2.  I am not anticipating storing lots of movies on it so 16 GB should be OK (no SD card though so too bad if I change my mind).   For data I am going to use my S2 as a WIFI hotspot and hope the battery can still make it through the day.   The screen is a bit overspec'd but reviews seem to indicate battery life and overall performance is on par with other high end Android tablets so hopefully I can enjoy the upside of all those pixels without too much of the downside. I didn't consider an iPad as I find Apple too controlling and I think Android will close the gap over time.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyGo 4G - http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/09/lifehackers-total-guide-to-telstras-new-4g-lte-network/ — With my birthday fast approaching, I have finally bit the bullet and bought a tablet (well ordered it actually - I have to wait another week to play with it).  I decided to go with the Nexus 10 (16 GB) due to the overall price, value for money, lack of bloatware and quick access to updates.   I decided the 10 inch form factor will suit me best but realise there will be times when I wish it was smaller - but then I will fall back to my trusty Galaxy S2.  I am not anticipating storing lots of movies on it so 16 GB should be OK (no SD card though so too bad if I change my mind).   For data I am going to use my S2 as a WIFI hotspot and hope the battery can still make it through the day.   The screen is a bit overspec'd but reviews seem to indicate battery life and overall performance is on par with other high end Android tablets so hopefully I can enjoy the upside of all those pixels without too much of the downside. I didn't consider an iPad as I find Apple too controlling and I think Android will close the gap over time.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://www.theage.com.au/victoria/plant-lights-up--with-the-mighty-power-of-poo-20121117-29j1i.html — Is this such a good idea?  Human waste actually contains a lot of chemicals (eg: phosphorus) that are required for growing our food, so wouldn't our waste be better spent refeeding ourselves?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYes, photo took in Dead Sea resort. My impression is that Israel is a Jewish law regime so should be very conservative people. Check http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293979-i8272-k4246331-Dead_Sea_Nudity_Question-Dead_Sea_Region.html — National Geographic photographer George Steinmetz's portfolio, featuring aerial photography. Read more: http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTwo of my former colleagues (one UX designer and one developer) quitted their well paid daily job, set up company and kept developing their only ONE app "OZTV" for iPhone and iPad - http://www.appsperhaps.com/oztv/ OZTV once listed as the No. 3 the most popular iPhone / iPad app in Australia. However, all the income from selling app couldn't sustain a standard living for two families. Several months later, they all backed to the job market and carried on a "normal" job.  New economy is tough. Creating a new business model, then generating money and making profit from it is even harder. So far, companies who really make big bucks from iOS and Android are not outnumbered than the total fingers of a pair hands. Apple, Google, maker of Angry Bird, Instagram. Erh, sorry I can't name the fifth ... — The ecosystem, working as a freelance and developing applications then making millions dollars for iPhone and iPad, is not as rosy as Apple claimed. Statistics tell 99% those enthusiastic developers or entrepreneurs are hard to make a profit, even make a living ... 
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper My first Grail task assigned is to develop Selenium functional test on a Windows XP box with 1GB ram. At that time, I don't know how to run individual functional test on the command line, and I don't have the permission to open a Command Prompt. Everything run in god damned STS. Test passed and failed, STS crashed in evolution pace and at mercy natural selection hand. That's why 'I hate STS with a passion' from. — IntelliJ 12 Preview out. Looks like they've focussed on making this even faster than 11. Also, has better Scala and Javascript support
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Like your punchline style comments making someone looks like having smaller "maturity" & "common sense" gland in his / her brain than others. Remind me that life sucks. You have to suck in, digest and have fun over it ... — The 'quiet retreat' you can set up at the park, in the house... or even hang from a tree • Swiss-designed Cocoon 1 can be used in or outdoors, in water, attached to the ceiling or even hung from a tree • Human-sized bubbles designed to create a peaceful 'place of retreat' • Attachments can be added for cooking, sleeping... or washing dishes Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229941/Living-bubble-Swiss-designers-Micasa-Lab-invent-human-sized-sphere-called-Cocoon-1-peaceful-retreat-anywhere.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAdmittedly, I really don't get a piece of sense of all those math formula in the paper ... — Why illiquidity in one asset can spread quickly to others, from paper Illiquidity Contagion and Liquidity Crashes Read paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1804351
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAndroid ecosystem does neither better, when most Android users think applications should be all free ...  — The ecosystem, working as a freelance and developing applications then making millions dollars for iPhone and iPad, is not as rosy as Apple claimed. Statistics tell 99% those enthusiastic developers or entrepreneurs are hard to make a profit, even make a living ... 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddEven on Spring and Grail projects, the more time you have spent, the more you don't like STS. — IntelliJ 12 Preview out. Looks like they've focussed on making this even faster than 11. Also, has better Scala and Javascript support
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd While the argument seems arguable and evidence seems exaggerated, the information source seems singly coming from "hard earned thirst" Victoria Bitter, I still quite like this document. Full episode of Why Beer Saved The World at: http://youtu.be/PdwYjFnFoJU — Why beer is a really beautiful, truly wonderful thing invented by God? After gulp down a few pots of this magic potion and suddenly you are relaxed, happy, having fun and supremely confident. +Martin Paulo +Oleg Kiorsak And suddenly you feel making steady progress in solution ... #TGIF
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIntelliJ and other IDEs should work as they designed to do - editing source codes, debugging when you have to, but not everything in a "hogging" app, that maybe the performance issues come from. Developers grow up with Unix background have the strongest acknowledge how powerful command line is. Actually, a lot of work involved in development can do on the command line, you don't have to do the same work in IDE, unless developers grow up with Windows Minesweeper when they started I.T.  BTW, STS is a crap. Over. — IntelliJ 12 Preview out. Looks like they've focussed on making this even faster than 11. Also, has better Scala and Javascript support
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniHow about phablet, screen size between smartphone and mini-tablet, like Samsung Galaxy Note II?  — Phones & Tablets.  What to buy??? Google have released the next range of Nexus devices.  I'm seriously considering buying ... that is, if Google will put more stock back on the market!!!  The Nexus 4 has already sold out in Australia, and with the 32GB 10s also sold out it surely won't be long before the lesser capacity 16GB are all gone. My current phone is a Nokia N900, purchased in a bit of a hurry when my old Nokia N70 died.  It's served me well, but is ageing ... well, actually it's well passed its use-by date.  It is a slow phone.  Physically it's stood the test of time, and even survived its first accidental "drop test" recently.  Signs of wear can be seen by the flaking off of the buttons on the keyboard. Reviews about the Nexus 4 by LG point to a very capable and more mature Android device.  It looks the goods!  I see the major complaint is a lack of LTE, but at least for me right now this doesn't worry me.  I had been looking at the Samsung SIII, but I think I'm settled on the Nexus 4 now.  Even if I weren't convinced, the price saving is hard to ignore. Perhaps the tough question is on the tablet.  I was surprised to see the older dual-core processor in the Nexus 10 created by Samsung.  Why does the phone have (or need?) better speed than the tablet?  I'd have almost thought it would be the other way around.  The Nexus 10 is however competitively priced; if I was after a strong performer I might look into the Asus Transformer, but it's significantly more expensive and trails the Nexus 10 in screen quality.  The Transformer's detachable keyboard does look useful. So... do I jump?  Buy a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 10? Google - when are you going to put more stock on your shelves?!  They've emptied in less than a week, before I even had time to look!
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson What performance issue? Have you upgraded your aging hardware? I'm smiling from ear to ear whlie I'm working IntelliJ on MBP. You hold your MBP in the WRONG way :-) — IntelliJ 12 Preview out. Looks like they've focussed on making this even faster than 11. Also, has better Scala and Javascript support
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI won't care details of your post. Everything has an "intelliJ" word in it, I'll add + after it. — IntelliJ 12 Preview out. Looks like they've focussed on making this even faster than 11. Also, has better Scala and Javascript support
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHaving more than 150 connections in your LinkedIn account? more than 150 "friends" in Facebook? more than 150 followers in Twitter? Congratulations, you are on the path of psychopath in social life, which mean having in abundance the very traits most desired by normal persons. — Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restrictive rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 230, with a commonly used value of 150. Dunbar's number states the number of people one knows and keeps social contact with, and it does not include the number of people known personally with a ceased social relationship, nor people just generally known with a lack of persistent social relationship, a number which might be much higher and likely depends on long-term memory size.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni After Google Nexus 4, 7, 10 released today. price of Samsung Galaxy S3 dropped another $30 to $449; Samsung Galaxy Note II dropped $40 to $559. Keep waiting!  — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakLarry Ellison always tells everyone into thinking Oracle is a lot better than it is. Using products of such company is like a pain in the ass. ADF is not programming; dragging and dropping windows boxes making an application is neither an art. Light and fast are never recorded in Oracle dictionary. Oracle's customers are governments or monopoly enterprises,  big fat cats with bottomless cash reserve. Fight it, deny it ...    — +Terrence Miao +Dean Budd +Martin Paulo +James Gemmell et al couldn't help myself here - see my comments in OP but in fairness sake - did any if you guys contemplate these modernized "mobile"-friendly "ADF"... ??
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFeel a sense of place when you publish something in public domain in digital time, though it's totally virtual place ... — Why Twitter is a waste of time
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak I never thought spreading rumors and propavanda without thinking and comments is kind "gulit" or irresposible behaviour ... :-) — Why Twitter is a waste of time
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd You are an absolutely normal and sane buddy. Do you still need a formal medical certificate on this? ;-) — Why Twitter is a waste of time
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Where else can let you rant and whinge so long except G+ :-P — Why Twitter is a waste of time
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson I used believe it's totally waste your precious money spending $49 on a "powerless" Raspberry Pi dud. But after reading this article, I reckon both you are "Forward Thinking, Broadly Looking" awesome dudes! — Power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers • Moore’s Law Is Becoming Irrelevant. • PC is really just a smartphone in another form factor. TVs are big smartphones. • It's rubbish that ARM-based chips can’t be powerful enough to support everything PCs need to do. For example: image editing and processing.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni  Not exactly. I followed Samsung Galaxy S III for a long time. Price dropped from original $799 to currently $479 in just a few months. That price will keep lowing further. Check http://www.kogan.com.au for the latest low price. I like Nexus 10 spec. But need a good excuse why I need to buy it. For example, reading tech book while laying on bed? — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni “Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.” - Eric S. Raymond  — Get more from life Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear Algebra to Theory of Computation, in less than one year. More importantly, he did it all on his own, watching the lectures online and evaluating himself using the actual exams.  That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks. Read more: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algebra-in-10-days-astounding-experiments-in-ultra-learning/ and MIT challenge blog: http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Nexus 4 $299. Nexus 10 $499. Will be available on Npv 13th, 2012 in Google Play store. I'm waiting for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 price to drop. — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPlay with iPad mini in JB-HiFi lunch time today. Good quality built, but it's a 'me too' product without too many creation. Keep waiting. — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAccording to informed reliable source, iPad Mini 2 is on its way now. Retina display with the resolution 2048x1535, A6X processor, 1GB RAM, an exact mini version of iPad 4th generation, will be in production end of this year and release in March 2013. Never buy product version 1.0! Keep waiting! — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni A good computer developer needs years of years learning and practice. I would ask this guy whether he reckons he could start programming and be a better developer soon after he finishes the course. Experience and mindset in industry is totally different to the things learned from books in ivory tower. — Get more from life Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear Algebra to Theory of Computation, in less than one year. More importantly, he did it all on his own, watching the lectures online and evaluating himself using the actual exams.  That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks. Read more: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algebra-in-10-days-astounding-experiments-in-ultra-learning/ and MIT challenge blog: http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniRemember you told me "lottery is a way of life"? The point is not about winning, but participate and keep punting ... — $70M jackpot for Oz Lotto for this Tuesday! I'm hoping for improved luck next week.  The past fortnight has at least covered my expenses: Draw # 974  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 6 & Division 7  * Takings: $22.70 + $14.75 Draw $ 975  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 7, twice  * Takings: $15.10 x 2
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUnbelievable! Absolutely unbelievable!! +Casper Casper As you are studying MIT courses, what is your comments on study faster and learn quicker? Is it possible? — Get more from life Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear Algebra to Theory of Computation, in less than one year. More importantly, he did it all on his own, watching the lectures online and evaluating himself using the actual exams.  That works out to around 1 course every 1.5 weeks. Read more: http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algebra-in-10-days-astounding-experiments-in-ultra-learning/ and MIT challenge blog: http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/
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Commented on post by Michael Poloni$100M in jackpot tomorrow. Keep playing? All the best and good lucks. I'm a Tatts shareholder :-D — $70M jackpot for Oz Lotto for this Tuesday! I'm hoping for improved luck next week.  The past fortnight has at least covered my expenses: Draw # 974  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 6 & Division 7  * Takings: $22.70 + $14.75 Draw $ 975  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 7, twice  * Takings: $15.10 x 2
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNowhere to keep your broken old laptop Deano? You can put an ad on ebay saying take it free. Or deposit a small amount for labour cost and let someone recycle the parts. Or use the dead laptop as foot stand, the keyboard could massage your toes while you are working.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"The RAM is surface-mount soldered to the logic board, so no upgrade is possible. It will forever have 8 GB of RAM." - iFixit, MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2012 Teardown Damn!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Paid visit to JB-HiFi twice this week to play on the latest retina display MacBook Pro 13". Great machine, good design. Thinner, lighter, but still powerful. Very suitable for a person often needs man power surge. I'm salivating on it. However, unless it's hackable, let me add more RAM and replace the hard disk ... I won't reach fingers into my deep pocket ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoU.K. operation will drag NAB under water for a couple more years. Any comments from an insider's view Mr. J +James Gemmell ? — Cameron Clyne has scotched speculation his days at National Australia Bank are numbered – or at least as far as he is concerned. Read more: http://afr.com/p/business/financial_services/nab_clyne_just_get_on_with_the_job_li645gO1VPLJhDn5CBOOTP
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBuy a MacBook Pro and double your productivity.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI guess Deano recommended Dumbster (it's really a dumb now) is just because its name starts with "D".  Hahaha. — Hitting a wall this week when an application broken in CI due to newly added email notification service. Basically, after each transaction, an email sent out to notify customer. Unfortunately, may I say fortunately, for a great job done by the infrastructure and security teams, local and CI are blocked to access SMTP server.  Project is in the Spring boat. It's blissful experience that Spring has native email service implementation and support, concisely and quickly to turn it on. To get CI go through, the first hint is to replace real email service with mocked one. It should support unit and functional test. However, it can't touch the existing beautiful code, even a single character. There are a lot these email / SMTP server solutions: Apache James, jsmtpd ... our congenial friend +Dean Budd Deano Balsano tipped Dumbster long time ago. But they all lost touch, out of fashion now. New boy is in town and his name is Subetha SMTP. Let the code do the talk ... Reference: https://code.google.com/p/subethasmtp/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Will give a bean matcher try later. Cheers. — Spring MVC thread safe distilled I come across this question when a controller in Spring MVC which scope is Singleton, is it thread safe? The answer is NO. According to java concurrency thread safety is that the shared data, like instance variables and can be modified, then the Singleton Spring MVC controller has the instance variables, or injected autowired Spring bean isn't 100% thread safe. But when member variables, inside the method body, then they are thread safe and no need for synchronised. Now come along some goodies of the best practice of playing thread safety in Spring by following these simple rules: 1. Don’t use states on Controllers, Service Layer Objects and DAOs 2. If you can’t avoid, first rethink your design, unless you have to use synchronized 3. If you want to use prototype scoped beans, be aware of instance explosion
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Commented on post by Casper CasperAmazing! — http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VIVIegSt81k
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniAny luck? ;-p — $70M jackpot for Oz Lotto for this Tuesday! I'm hoping for improved luck next week.  The past fortnight has at least covered my expenses: Draw # 974  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 6 & Division 7  * Takings: $22.70 + $14.75 Draw $ 975  * Entry Cost: $28.80 (Mega Quickpick)  * Won? Division 7, twice  * Takings: $15.10 x 2
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI don't mind HFT if only way of the stock price is shot up. — Computer controlled high frequency trading (HFT) Down Under HFT may be behind a spike in the price of major stocks including ANZ Bank when the Australian Securities Exchange opened on Oct 18, 2012 ANZ, Ansell, Aristocrat and AGL were among stocks that leapt in value in the first minute of trading before settling back nearer to last trading day's closing prices. ANZ jumped $1.67, or 6.5 per cent, to $27.63, when the market opened before falling back to around $26.15. Patersons Securities Lew Fellowes said the anomaly was likely due to a "black box trading program" - a high-frequency, algorithmic trading system that had gone awry. Reflecting the US stock market flash crash on May 6 2010 and recent India stock exchange flash crash briefly erases US$58-billion on Oct 5 2012 that in 15 minutes after the 50-stock gauge tumbled as much as 16%. Question is asked whether HFT is saint or devil? Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/business/highfrequency-trading-rewriting-the-rule-book-20121026-28azm.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell As you are the expert on HFT, any theories, technical glitches or fat fingers, behind distortion of stock market by HFT? — Computer controlled high frequency trading (HFT) Down Under HFT may be behind a spike in the price of major stocks including ANZ Bank when the Australian Securities Exchange opened on Oct 18, 2012 ANZ, Ansell, Aristocrat and AGL were among stocks that leapt in value in the first minute of trading before settling back nearer to last trading day's closing prices. ANZ jumped $1.67, or 6.5 per cent, to $27.63, when the market opened before falling back to around $26.15. Patersons Securities Lew Fellowes said the anomaly was likely due to a "black box trading program" - a high-frequency, algorithmic trading system that had gone awry. Reflecting the US stock market flash crash on May 6 2010 and recent India stock exchange flash crash briefly erases US$58-billion on Oct 5 2012 that in 15 minutes after the 50-stock gauge tumbled as much as 16%. Question is asked whether HFT is saint or devil? Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/business/highfrequency-trading-rewriting-the-rule-book-20121026-28azm.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson I think the common practice is that POJO must be accessible using get, set, following a standard naming convention. This allows easy automated inspection and updating of bean state within frameworks. We have data structure but that wouldn't prevent integration architect defined an object in integration layer with hundreds properties. We have the transformer classes which one class could over 1000 lines code threshold just do data mapping. Ironically, IDE automatically generates getters and setters developers have to manually write unit test on getters and setters. Is this a design issue? I think so ... — Spring MVC thread safe distilled I come across this question when a controller in Spring MVC which scope is Singleton, is it thread safe? The answer is NO. According to java concurrency thread safety is that the shared data, like instance variables and can be modified, then the Singleton Spring MVC controller has the instance variables, or injected autowired Spring bean isn't 100% thread safe. But when member variables, inside the method body, then they are thread safe and no need for synchronised. Now come along some goodies of the best practice of playing thread safety in Spring by following these simple rules: 1. Don’t use states on Controllers, Service Layer Objects and DAOs 2. If you can’t avoid, first rethink your design, unless you have to use synchronized 3. If you want to use prototype scoped beans, be aware of instance explosion
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak One thing I don't like Java POJO in Action is the spreading of poison of Getters and Setters. In most case, they have default behaviour and shouldn't specify explicitly. So that's why I like MetaClass interface within Groovy could defines the behaviour POJO like for Groovy or Java class. Less is more. Less code is always clean, better and reliable code. Less code reflects clean design and simple approach to solve the complicated problem. — Spring MVC thread safe distilled I come across this question when a controller in Spring MVC which scope is Singleton, is it thread safe? The answer is NO. According to java concurrency thread safety is that the shared data, like instance variables and can be modified, then the Singleton Spring MVC controller has the instance variables, or injected autowired Spring bean isn't 100% thread safe. But when member variables, inside the method body, then they are thread safe and no need for synchronised. Now come along some goodies of the best practice of playing thread safety in Spring by following these simple rules: 1. Don’t use states on Controllers, Service Layer Objects and DAOs 2. If you can’t avoid, first rethink your design, unless you have to use synchronized 3. If you want to use prototype scoped beans, be aware of instance explosion
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGatling only covers performance/load testing. JProfiler is still dominating performance tuning work. — General Melchett: "Performance isn't a dirty word, Blackadder. Accountability is a dirty word, but performance isn't." If you have never experienced performance tuning and testing, you should quit your I.T. job and work in a pet shop instead. If you know how to run LoadRunner (not Lode Runner, not the game), you are definitely a "qualified" and over-rated consultant who could demand big money but only make mealy mouthful work. If you know something beyond like JMeter and Grinder but not everything else, you are either too old or already out of fashion. Introduce Gatling, a new stress testing tool with a different dimension. • It uses concise and elegant script language to write BDD style testing scenarios, actually it's Scala. • It uses actors and async IO patterns, asynchronous parallel computing, far more efficience than one-thread-per-user design. • It gives more accurate results with far less memory and CPU usage.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano made a good point not long time ago about the best way to learn a new computer language. I couldn't remember exact his words because at that time the beer still dribbled from his mouth when he talked. Anyway his point is to learn, understand and master a new language by using it to write test from beginning. Gatling I reckon gives your full god "excuse" but the most important - the motivation to start learning, writing and practicing in Scala ... — General Melchett: "Performance isn't a dirty word, Blackadder. Accountability is a dirty word, but performance isn't." If you have never experienced performance tuning and testing, you should quit your I.T. job and work in a pet shop instead. If you know how to run LoadRunner (not Lode Runner, not the game), you are definitely a "qualified" and over-rated consultant who could demand big money but only make mealy mouthful work. If you know something beyond like JMeter and Grinder but not everything else, you are either too old or already out of fashion. Introduce Gatling, a new stress testing tool with a different dimension. • It uses concise and elegant script language to write BDD style testing scenarios, actually it's Scala. • It uses actors and async IO patterns, asynchronous parallel computing, far more efficience than one-thread-per-user design. • It gives more accurate results with far less memory and CPU usage.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYep, read a few product reviews, all positive except the aging screen resolution. Seems a result of the compromise of product cost control. No problem, waiting for another six months Apple will release high screen resolution iPad mini 2. The strategy to have, hold and use an Apple product in a longer lifecycle is, ... Don't buy it. — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThat's what called "True fighting spirit" in sports. — "Rather than trying to end the brawl, the match officials ran off the field in fear." - LOL
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWelldone Apple! Congratulations Apple fanboys! (in sarcastic way) — iPad mini It takes 30 months and 4 generatons since first release of iPad on April 3rd 2010, Apple finally gets the right size, right weight, right price, right design, right OS, right applications, right market niche, right balanced, almost no annoying public complainted issues, nearly all bugs been fixed iPad delivered ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGreat artist has a pair good eyes and could notice the difference in details while others can't tell.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSpeechless!
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakDesign makes difference in details. iPhone 4/4S is a classic - design, quality, usability and portability. I still rate them higher than iPhone 5.   — this is very true and in fact far exceeds even the high expectation arising from reading +Aryan Ameri "shout out" blurb... I am deeply genuinely surprised that such reviewers  (+AnandTech ) actually exist in this day and age of superficial tech fashion gadget gizmo giggling geeky fanboys crapola of "tech reviews"... this is a real bright valuable gem in the nowadays enormous information overflow ocean of bullshit , nonsense, fluff and foam... (a phenomenon not limited to IT and electronics only, and arguably it's more like being a 99.9% than 95% ;-) ...  
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd My respect and admiration for you is like the surging river, boundless without end in sight; also like the flood water, inundated out of control ... — Question: If there is only ONE thing you can pick up from Agile practice, which one do you want to choose? Answer: Retrospective. Retrospective is not only a learning process - to discover, share, and pass along from past experience, but also for the improvement, a best way to grow project by project. In addition to that, retrospective is an efficient and important way for team building - yield foster a stronger and better team. As Retrospective Prime Directive, in Norm Kerth's book <<Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews>> points out - Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand. As in another good book <<Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great>> says:  "With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra." A true Agile practice really makes sense in the end ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI got trail version. Will test later. Anyway, thanks for your time, comments and $50 donation for the "charity". People will remeber you. Want me buy you a beer? :-) — The most intelligent JavaScript IDE: JavaScript + CSS + HTML Editor with refactorings, code completion and on-the-fly code analysis. Read more: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI swa this thread by googling. This Dmitry Jemerov doesn't detail how to do it in IntelliJ. Quite suspicious why IntelliJ need to hide some great features away from customers. I guess he is intoxicated. Experience says don't trust a russian' words when he turns on Vodka tap. — The most intelligent JavaScript IDE: JavaScript + CSS + HTML Editor with refactorings, code completion and on-the-fly code analysis. Read more: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Live HTML, CSS, JS editing. Don't think latest IntelliJ supports it. For everything else, IntelliJ can do but not in WebStorm fast, even speed of light JS editing fashion. — The most intelligent JavaScript IDE: JavaScript + CSS + HTML Editor with refactorings, code completion and on-the-fly code analysis. Read more: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThat's why I'm a big fan of iFixit! — Fix the Planet  Repair is recycling! The best way to keep electronics out of landfills is to keep them working longer. Toxic electronic waste is a global problem that we are working to solve. Self repair saves you money and helps the environment!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Those are the places people really don't understand the essential of Agile ;-) — Question: If there is only ONE thing you can pick up from Agile practice, which one do you want to choose? Answer: Retrospective. Retrospective is not only a learning process - to discover, share, and pass along from past experience, but also for the improvement, a best way to grow project by project. In addition to that, retrospective is an efficient and important way for team building - yield foster a stronger and better team. As Retrospective Prime Directive, in Norm Kerth's book <<Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews>> points out - Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand. As in another good book <<Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great>> says:  "With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra." A true Agile practice really makes sense in the end ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWithout paying Apple's heavy loyalty (ransom), you can order iPhone 5 and other Apple products, then buy cheap and fully compatible, working 3rd party Apple accessories from Hong Kong. Apple;s accessories have the biggest, fattest profit margin than its main products like iPhone and MacBook Pro. — Unbreakable Apple's lighting chip has been cracked Apple's Lightning connector requires a specific authentication chip, which meant that unauthorised third-party accessories were unlikely to be compatible with the iPhone 5 and other Lightning devices. Read more: http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3404256&pagtype=allchandate
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyWorkplace is using Balsamiq Mockups, as Atlassian Confluence plugin, to design Wireframe for web applications - http://www.balsamiq.com/ Balsamiq can run on desktop as well. For Case, Class and Sequence  diagram, check - http://blog.rainwebs.net/mock4u/ — A guy at Medibank clued me in to http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ as an amazingly quick way to whip up UML sequence diagrams.  It is not particularly future proof as you never know how long these sorts of free services will be around but it is very effective.  You just need to save the text that you used to generate the diagram so that you can go back and make changes later.  It is particularly good for search and replace when you have similar diagrams, where most other tools force you to individually update text associated with parts of your diagram.  I love it already.  It has just made my day. 
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson"I think all 7 billion people on Earth should have a cellphone," Wiens says, but "we have to replace them much less frequently." Consumerism vs. Environment.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThank you Apache Camel. Thank you Apache Proxy Balancer. Thank you Spring Integration. Thank you +Dean Budd +Kieran Simpson  — Boss : "What ya doing?" Developer : "Just checking out Bob's new Camel Toe..." Boss : "Oooookaaayyyy.. I'll leave you two to it...."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMy colleague got another call this morning for a "hands-on" enterprise architect role in an intergration project. This time is in Victoria University. Pay up $110K. Universities in Australia maybe ALL on drug at the moment. My collegue laughed out and turned off this romantic "marriage proposal". He told the agent to find an integration developer that could do all the design and code and test for the university. — Oracle is selling more fusion cells One of my colleagues is going to take an Enterprise Architect role in Deakin University in a few weeks. He is an expert of Tibco product. But Deakin is Oracle warehouse. From Oracle Weblogic servers to web applications developed by ADF which are running extremely fucking slow (no idea who the hell designed this piece of shit). And now Oracle Fusion. My colleague is going to design an integration solution for Deakin based on Fusion and messaging system. Obviously, SOA 2.0, event driven service oriented architecture.  We had a hot discussion about the performance issues found in previous projects, including the dear ESB centralised solution, why in memory database solution like Coherence is scaring. How to persistent message state in an efficient way. We concluded that all the failure of the performance are due to the design fault in the early stage of the project, which those "paper" architects good at talking (bullshitting?) but have tiny idea how to process large data in a highly scalable way, except everything should be Oracle's. Then he asked me a few questions about Oracle BPEL. I told him BPEL is good at orchestration but not anything else. It's a terrible idea asking BPEL do a lot jobs. This happened during lunch break. This afternoon, I got a call from an employment agency which I submit my CV to them during 2008 GFC. They finally noticed my fusion "expertise" in CV and made a phone call four years later.  I was told The University of Melbourne is looking for integration developer. Of course, Oracle Fusion. It's two years fixed contract, pay $130K per year. This is the salary I would kill myself for during my seven and half years working with Melbourne University. But think about pain and sleepless night as an Oracle product developer, the time wasted dealing on and kicking the balls with hopeless Oracle support, a quick response I made: Thanks, but no thanks.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd After I asked for a free lunch to pay the consultation, check how many comments followed up! You can see how low the bribe level developers are ...  — Who's doing Web-Based Mobile Development out there? We're moving very quickly into the Mobile Development space i.e we have User Stories scheduled in one month. What are people using out there for Web Based Mobile Development? Two technologies that we're going to evaluate are JQuery Mobile and pure Javascript Thoughts? Experiences?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFolks, please post some meaningful thread and add sensible comments on G+. Please don't waste your time kill yourself slowly and waste other people time kill themselves intolerably. — Quote of the day - "Network is always important when it's real, and is always useless and distraction when it's fake." - Seth Godin
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd True. It's a decent and pretty architecture letting client side do all the checking, validation ... server side only serve services and process business, reducing network between client and server. Decision on JS soluton on the client side becomes critical. — Who's doing Web-Based Mobile Development out there? We're moving very quickly into the Mobile Development space i.e we have User Stories scheduled in one month. What are people using out there for Web Based Mobile Development? Two technologies that we're going to evaluate are JQuery Mobile and pure Javascript Thoughts? Experiences?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson +James Gemmell Mr. J is still on holiday or still in holiday mode. You need wait and come back till he finishes his beer .... — "We don't want to do the integration, we want Oracle to do that on our behalf."
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd I'm currently working on a web-based Spring MVC project. Spring MVC blows Structs into the bay. Light and effective. Comparing to Grails, Spring MVC is bit heavier and verbose. But Grails is still missing the native support of Spring Validation framework and webflow. For everything else, Grails is pretty good development framework and it's light as well. — Who's doing Web-Based Mobile Development out there? We're moving very quickly into the Mobile Development space i.e we have User Stories scheduled in one month. What are people using out there for Web Based Mobile Development? Two technologies that we're going to evaluate are JQuery Mobile and pure Javascript Thoughts? Experiences?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddJQuery, JQuery Mobile and Grails. Let you develop app quickly and decently. Worked on Yellowpages Mobile solution before. I'd like to have a private conversation discussing about future mobile development with you guys if Deano could organise a free lunch for us. Come on Deano, you are the person control the money! — Who's doing Web-Based Mobile Development out there? We're moving very quickly into the Mobile Development space i.e we have User Stories scheduled in one month. What are people using out there for Web Based Mobile Development? Two technologies that we're going to evaluate are JQuery Mobile and pure Javascript Thoughts? Experiences?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Korean scientists also "cloned" human being's embryo. — Quote of the day- Men's Happiness and Misfortune Men's Happiness - Marrying a Japanese wife, hiring a Chinese cook, having a French Lover, employing a British butler, living in an Australian house, and earning American salary (especially working in an American investment bank). Men's Misfortune - Marrying an American wife, hiring a British cook, having an Australian lover, employing a French butler, living in a Japanese house, and earning Chinese salary (especially working in Apple's manufacturer Foxconn).
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOh dear, no ... — "We don't want to do the integration, we want Oracle to do that on our behalf."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSign the petition and dump Alan Jones into the bay! — This great and fair country doesn't need one more scam bag who occupies the media, pollutes the air, bullshits the public. Alan Jones, you are the real shame of Australia. The only place belongs to you is in hell!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology." - Bruce Schneier — "Security isn't a dirty word, Blackadder," said General Melchett, "Crevice is a dirty word, but security isn't."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOoops ... — "Security isn't a dirty word, Blackadder," said General Melchett, "Crevice is a dirty word, but security isn't."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGreat product for programmer to take a snooze during 16 hours sitting in front of computer's daily job. — Design of the day - Ostrich Pillow Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208316/Ostrich-Pillow-Bizarre-invention-means-people-nap--wearing-pillow-balaclava.html
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Commented on post by Bryan Murphy+Bryan Murphy Have you already got one? Any review and comments if you have bought one? — Want a cheap NAS ?  Don't waste your time trying to get the Pi installed with Linux and configured just right and then waiting while the data trickles through USB and 100 Mbs.  Check this out (but note that Zazz changes their products EVERY day): https://www.zazz.com.au/ (for those clicking the link after Sep 25 the the NAS is a Noontec N5 Gigalink Home NAS Media Centre for $59)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Half Assed Agile. Over. —  1. Optimize for iteration speed.  2. Push relentlessly toward automation.  3. Build the right software abstractions.  4. Develop a focus on high code quality with code reviews.  5. Maintain a respectful work environment.  6. Build shared ownership of code.  7. Invest in automated testing.  8. Allot 20% time.  9. Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement. 10. Hire the best.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Big bow to you Deano. You should give a lesson to "Agile practioners" and "Scrum masters" what "True Agile" is. "Agile" has been abused by people with no brain of software development and is becoming more stink ... haha, hahaha —  1. Optimize for iteration speed.  2. Push relentlessly toward automation.  3. Build the right software abstractions.  4. Develop a focus on high code quality with code reviews.  5. Maintain a respectful work environment.  6. Build shared ownership of code.  7. Invest in automated testing.  8. Allot 20% time.  9. Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement. 10. Hire the best.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Beyond building your Agile team, have you thought about building a good engineering culture? Culture can be passed from generation to generation. Agile team only last till project finished. —  1. Optimize for iteration speed.  2. Push relentlessly toward automation.  3. Build the right software abstractions.  4. Develop a focus on high code quality with code reviews.  5. Maintain a respectful work environment.  6. Build shared ownership of code.  7. Invest in automated testing.  8. Allot 20% time.  9. Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement. 10. Hire the best.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Good practice doesn't become worse because haven't to be labelled as Agile; bad practice doesn't become better even it has been labelled as Agile. Agile is good start point. But it doesn't target hit and delivery guaranteed.   —  1. Optimize for iteration speed.  2. Push relentlessly toward automation.  3. Build the right software abstractions.  4. Develop a focus on high code quality with code reviews.  5. Maintain a respectful work environment.  6. Build shared ownership of code.  7. Invest in automated testing.  8. Allot 20% time.  9. Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement. 10. Hire the best.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddjQuery, Node.js, Vanilla JS ... — Anyone out there used Dojo?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Can't stop laughing out when I come across COBOL avoidance. My colleagues were annoyed with my noise.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper Relentless refactoring. To me, that's the really the fundamental idea behind continuous improvement. ;-) —  1. Optimize for iteration speed.  2. Push relentlessly toward automation.  3. Build the right software abstractions.  4. Develop a focus on high code quality with code reviews.  5. Maintain a respectful work environment.  6. Build shared ownership of code.  7. Invest in automated testing.  8. Allot 20% time.  9. Build a culture of learning and continuous improvement. 10. Hire the best.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen my footy skill - how to kick a ball, was learned not from AFL but from Oracle support team. — Quote of the day - "We don't often test our code. But when we do, we do it in customer's production." - Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Wayne Swan is the luckest treasurer simply because Australia is the luckest country. A coalition government maybe can achieve the same result in this crisis. I doubt single political party have the power and influence in one single term than the reverse bank. I agree his "cranks and crazies" about Republicans. Mitt Romney is a successful business man, but the common senses doesn't make sense to his tax cut meanwhile debt reduce plan. And his "Just get me into White House and I will tell you how to achieve this" seems quite dodgy. However, U.S. election is still toe to toe at the moment, and it's hard to predict. Historical records tell you that you just can't overestimate the intelligence of American voters. One main reason is half of them couldn't speak and write English right. "English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!" - Homer Simpson — Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high at 45 per cent Thinking about you get up early and work hard all day, and other half of the population laying on the beach and drinking beer, makes you better understand the meaning of "Advance Australia Fair" ... Read more: http://afr.com/p/national/infographic_australians_who_don_IiBi6f6xdQiVcDGLGsQJWM
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Oleg, you are my man! It's all the fairness of tax system. People on high income could make bigger contribution to society if they pay in higher tax bracket. Tax is good vehicle to balance the development, narrow the gap between wealth and  poverty. But it's commonly abused by the pollies buying the cheap vote by brainwashing the unsophisticated electors. — Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high at 45 per cent Thinking about you get up early and work hard all day, and other half of the population laying on the beach and drinking beer, makes you better understand the meaning of "Advance Australia Fair" ... Read more: http://afr.com/p/national/infographic_australians_who_don_IiBi6f6xdQiVcDGLGsQJWM
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Good information tip Mike.  Half of the population don't pay tax in this country is exaggerated. The point to make is in a fair society people should work if they have the ability, and take a fair share (dividend) after their retirement. Social security is to help people who need support, but not support bludgers who abuse welfare schema. In a democrate country like Australia, sadly the constitution still allow those welfare cheaters to play, vote and reproduce.    — Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high at 45 per cent Thinking about you get up early and work hard all day, and other half of the population laying on the beach and drinking beer, makes you better understand the meaning of "Advance Australia Fair" ... Read more: http://afr.com/p/national/infographic_australians_who_don_IiBi6f6xdQiVcDGLGsQJWM
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"No firm view" is the key of success in politics.  — Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high at 45 per cent Thinking about you get up early and work hard all day, and other half of the population laying on the beach and drinking beer, makes you better understand the meaning of "Advance Australia Fair" ... Read more: http://afr.com/p/national/infographic_australians_who_don_IiBi6f6xdQiVcDGLGsQJWM
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Why can't you just make neutral and well balanced comments, don't criticise or blame either Labor or Liberal parties, keep our Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott warming and flirting each other? — Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high at 45 per cent Thinking about you get up early and work hard all day, and other half of the population laying on the beach and drinking beer, makes you better understand the meaning of "Advance Australia Fair" ... Read more: http://afr.com/p/national/infographic_australians_who_don_IiBi6f6xdQiVcDGLGsQJWM
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHave you tried to upgrade your iDevices with latest iOS 6? It will take about 25 minutes reboot after upgrade. Apple reminds you you should chuck your iDevices into the bin and buy a new shining iPhone 5.  This is typical Apple fans' iSucks experience. — Apple is constantly trying to push the envelope with its clear design, innovative technology solutions and strategic product launches. Meanwhile, leaving its old customers who can't afford to pay up for the next generation products into the bin. Show my new design. Show me your money ... Read more: http://www.macorg.net/future-apple-products-2013/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Thank you for your long time patronising software, game, beer and cigarette industries. — The most intelligent JavaScript IDE: JavaScript + CSS + HTML Editor with refactorings, code completion and on-the-fly code analysis. Read more: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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Commented on post by Will YuanSamsung plays a wait and catch game now with Apple. It is going to release a better smartphone Galaxy S4, better than iPhone 5 in Feb or Mar next year.  http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-brief/66220-samsung-galaxy-s4-due-february-or-march — I'd prefer the Samsung Note 2 as a comparison vs IPhone 5....
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyAccording to informed source, Samsung is going to release new flagship smartphone every year.  S3, 2012; S4, 2013; S5; 2014 ... Keep waiting; keep the money in the bank and earn precious interest, in cash :-) — http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-brief/66220-samsung-galaxy-s4-due-february-or-march
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonQE accelerates the devaluation of US dollars. Americans dig a big hole for themselves to get out. Change of the oil currency won't be a big surprise.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Maximus ConEmu I did give ConEmu try. It's quite good and powerful tool, working with Cygwin mintty; select, highlight, copy, middle button paste between different terminals all work well. The only issue is it's too powerful, it can do many things. My requirement is multiple tabs feature in Cygwin mintty. So the smaller tool, simple add-on is better. But thanks for ConEmu tip!  — Looking for multiple tabs solution for Cygwin terminal for a long time.  I used to use mrxvt which built from source codes to run on Windows 7, but crashed on Windows XP. Then tried WinTabber, a nice tool can integrate a few native Windows applications into tabs window but keeps crashing after a certain time.   At last, I give Console 2 a try. Very stable with the basic tab feature I want. Check at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI switch to Windows Tab now, after follow Deano's tip. Console 2 is good, but it doesn't support mintty, which is my main terminal. Setting shell to mintty in Console 2 causes Windows crashed. Using Cygwin as shell in Console 2, OK, but selected text can't be highlighted. Trail version of Window Tabs only support three tabs in one group. But can run many tab groups at the same time ... Bow to Deano! — Looking for multiple tabs solution for Cygwin terminal for a long time.  I used to use mrxvt which built from source codes to run on Windows 7, but crashed on Windows XP. Then tried WinTabber, a nice tool can integrate a few native Windows applications into tabs window but keeps crashing after a certain time.   At last, I give Console 2 a try. Very stable with the basic tab feature I want. Check at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy Yes, this magic wand is called inflation. $100 will match $1 purchase power today, maybe 30 years later. All the old debt just gone. Magic! :-)  — Why cash is best as your go-to guy People forget that central bank balance sheets have to balance. So the new assets they create by printing money must be matched by new liabilities. ... Central banks have no magic wand with which to disappear debt. It is being passed from one hand to the next with the hope inflation will cause it to atrophy.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe SAME company JebBrains who made IntelliJ. Develop with pleasure! — The most intelligent JavaScript IDE: JavaScript + CSS + HTML Editor with refactorings, code completion and on-the-fly code analysis. Read more: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson yep, it's US$ 31 gain for daily trader on gold before and after QE annoucement :-) But short term hold on gold is risky and hardly predicable. — Welcome QE Forever! The U.S Federal Reserve said it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities per month in an attempt to foster a nascent recovery in the real estate market. The purchases will be open-ended, meaning that they will continue until the Fed is satisfied that economic conditions, primarily in unemployment, improve.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Due to the instant devaluation of U.S. Dollars, not the instant inflation . Gold price actually not changed to your Aussie dollars. — Welcome QE Forever! The U.S Federal Reserve said it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities per month in an attempt to foster a nascent recovery in the real estate market. The purchases will be open-ended, meaning that they will continue until the Fed is satisfied that economic conditions, primarily in unemployment, improve.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddiRemote iControl. — LOL!
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyThis is a shameless copycat of Apple's iPhone 5. — More is always better but 1080p on a phone !!! They will have to come with new slogans like "Eagle Retina Display" since human retinas are just so yesterday. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Oppo-Smartphone-1080p-Display-Android,17494.html
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniMate, I reckon you need have a few girlfriends so you could fully understand the importance of the 100% communication over the phone :-) — I tried to explain the concept of instant messaging to my boss today, explaining that I rarely use a phone. She couldn't understand how it could possibly be faster to have to think of what to write, write it and then respond! Perhaps I didn't explain it very well, when I coupled it together with the fact that I seldom use my mobile phone.  Instead I use email, IM & social media for almost 100% of communication outside of work. Maybe it's just my generation?  I see telephones as more time-costly, and instant messaging as a fast & efficient form of communication.  Or maybe it's also just me ... I don't like talking to people unless I can actually see them.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoConverted audio is very closed to natural speaking. — Listen any thing you can read SoundGecko is a text-to-audio transcribing service that lets you enjoy written content from around the web on the internet. It converts online articles into audible MP3s and you can listen later.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBe creative. Be different. — William Moggridge, the pioneer who designed the first laptop -  The Compass, passed away on Saturday at 69. Almost every laptop since has used some form of Mr. Moggridge’s design, including popular MacBook Pro, which Apple has yet paid a cent to Mr. Moggridge's patent. He once said that when he tested the prototype in 1981 it was the first time he had used a computer, and that it was the software, not the box, that captivated him. It opened his mind to the idea that for the rising digital era, design could be more than merely creating beautiful, utilitarian objects but could also be about the user’s experience. Apple has yet paid a cent to this kind user's experience. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/technology/william-moggridge-laptop-pioneer-dies-at-69.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReality is there are a lot of paper architects in workforce today who build apps practically run on paper only ;-) — People blame Javascript because of its absent-minded design, sloppy syntax, no decent IDE support it, hardly to refactor, everyone even a pig can programme it. However, the most important missing link in Javascript is it's lack of unit test framework. Game changed soon after Jasmine comes up. Unit testing with BDD style, Jasmine helps messy and nightmare Javascript codes cleaned up, reliable and trustworthy.  This tutorial introduces Jasmine to any Javascript developers who want to leap up to another level. Mind you, I haven't seen the Javascript codes can be written in such an elegant and beautiful way. Have fun and enjoy always.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd After you fully understand IntelliJ' s view of the world, there is no way could turn you back to Eclipse. — People blame Javascript because of its absent-minded design, sloppy syntax, no decent IDE support it, hardly to refactor, everyone even a pig can programme it. However, the most important missing link in Javascript is it's lack of unit test framework. Game changed soon after Jasmine comes up. Unit testing with BDD style, Jasmine helps messy and nightmare Javascript codes cleaned up, reliable and trustworthy.  This tutorial introduces Jasmine to any Javascript developers who want to leap up to another level. Mind you, I haven't seen the Javascript codes can be written in such an elegant and beautiful way. Have fun and enjoy always.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Wow, you are a rarely found hands-on team leader today :-) Play Jasmine in IntelliJ mate. — People blame Javascript because of its absent-minded design, sloppy syntax, no decent IDE support it, hardly to refactor, everyone even a pig can programme it. However, the most important missing link in Javascript is it's lack of unit test framework. Game changed soon after Jasmine comes up. Unit testing with BDD style, Jasmine helps messy and nightmare Javascript codes cleaned up, reliable and trustworthy.  This tutorial introduces Jasmine to any Javascript developers who want to leap up to another level. Mind you, I haven't seen the Javascript codes can be written in such an elegant and beautiful way. Have fun and enjoy always.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA pair of thongs, Vegemite, Sydney Opera House, boxing kangaroos and Alan Jones are on the top list of Australian Icons. — Design of the day - Mojito shoes Never could I understand why women are so obsessed and mad with a pair shoes until I saw the design of Mojito shoes. Read more: http://www.dezeen.com/2009/09/23/mojito-shoe-by-julian-hakes/ http://www.hakes.co.uk/flash.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni What worries me in this country is that top ten wealthy people are either feudal landlords or property tycoons.  — Quote of the day - "Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives." -- Michelle Obama
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniI had compost bin set up at home. Cut grass, falling leaves, veggie and fruit scrap, soil left are re-potting and manure I add in. Great way recycling all possible natural resources. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112201754385215382872/albums/5785004477895296481/5785935379178193714 https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112201754385215382872/albums/5785004477895296481/5785935422302376226 — Dark spring time clouds are circling, but occasionally the sun is breaking through!   The rain is welcome, and as the weather warms up the fruit trees are starting to blossom and natives are flowering.   #spring   More work in the garden is needed... including removal of a half-dead tree that snapped in the storms this week.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Another proof that people have the money don't mean they also have the taste. — A night shot of the latest international architecture sensation - Arc de Undies Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/arc-de-undies-chinese-skyscraper-is-just-pants-20120907-25i41.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGreat architecture is like a timeless art built on earth. — A night shot of the latest international architecture sensation - Arc de Undies Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/arc-de-undies-chinese-skyscraper-is-just-pants-20120907-25i41.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCan keep making money from people sucks is always a brilliant business. Like casino can keep making money from people sucks of mathematics. — What a gold mine of a contract.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAn application with NO room to improve is a dead application. — Just installed Swype Beta. Can't believe how awesome it is. I really didn't think they could improve.
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Commented on post by Casper Casper+Kieran Simpson yep, have downloaded, installed but still no chance to use it. App can tell when train arrives on platform, but can't advice you how big crowd already on the platform. Several times I could't get in just train was already fully packed. So nowaday, I just run to station and get my arse into the front row.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperHave downloaded, installed but no chance to use it. I'm on the train. Real time train update, even on official Metro website is patchy.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Being wealthy and successful in business doesn't deny your opportunities helping the communities and changing the world. On the contrary, ability to maneuver large amount capital maybe help you get jobs done easily and quickly. Success doesn't mean have to be prompted up the ladder from poverty. +Dean Budd What I can say. You are very un-Australian. Hahaha. — Quote of the day - "Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives." -- Michelle Obama
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood argument Mr. Null, but, but ... I need to think about for a good reason to support this kind design. — Design of the day - KeyView, more concentration, less mistake.  Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/08/29/smartype-keyboard-has-a-screen-go-ahead-and-look-at-your-hands/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonToday is my first day using myki. Try to top up this morning but verding machine doesn't accept my credit card. Reluctant to use NAB debit card instead and only find $2 on account balance. Try to transfer some money over, find IB is out of service ... Banking service becomes so crucial especially during online site goes down :-) — Someone over there wasn't doing TDD +James Gemmell :p
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoReading printed newspaper on the train is some kind privilege today (except MX), especially while others read their tiny smartphones or chunky tablets. Because 1. You are a gentleman 2. You are civilised and literary 3. You are a wealthy person, because while other try to get everything free, you still like to pay something not so fresh and less better served. — Good old newspapers are almost gone in this country. Reading the news that Fairfax, owner of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, is keep laying off quality journalists to reduce the cost of running business. Everyday, I can see The Age newspaper becomes thinner and thinner. Favourite columnists and columns are nicked off the newspaper one by one. I wonder whether this trend would bring the civilization back to the dark age soon? Next one is going to disappear in this country is free air TVs.  Tabloid TVs, like Channel 7, 9, 10, how do they can survive under the attack of Google TV, Apple TV, and, or the free, content pirated internet TVs? Audiences could have more choices to switch the programme they enjoy without enduring annoying, bias, racist hosts of these Tabloid TVs. Or continuously watch a few hours sports without having to buy Foxtel IQ set top box, and having to subscribe sports channel bundled with kids, celebrities gossips, and women's daily channels at the same time. Not everyone obsesses with Kardashian disease. Meanwhile, Aunty and SBS can still survive under the mercy of pollies and tax payer's money.  Lucky you still don't need to pay for the weather forecast. Hang on a minute mate. Bureau of Meteorology is a government agency and run by tax payer's money as well!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Justin Gan Like The Australian, though it's under the evil name - News Corp; Enjoy AFR, still no other business focus media can overpass it; The Age is in the direction of tabloid; giving LOL while read Herald "Horny" Sun, especially during the toilet time. — Good old newspapers are almost gone in this country. Reading the news that Fairfax, owner of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, is keep laying off quality journalists to reduce the cost of running business. Everyday, I can see The Age newspaper becomes thinner and thinner. Favourite columnists and columns are nicked off the newspaper one by one. I wonder whether this trend would bring the civilization back to the dark age soon? Next one is going to disappear in this country is free air TVs.  Tabloid TVs, like Channel 7, 9, 10, how do they can survive under the attack of Google TV, Apple TV, and, or the free, content pirated internet TVs? Audiences could have more choices to switch the programme they enjoy without enduring annoying, bias, racist hosts of these Tabloid TVs. Or continuously watch a few hours sports without having to buy Foxtel IQ set top box, and having to subscribe sports channel bundled with kids, celebrities gossips, and women's daily channels at the same time. Not everyone obsesses with Kardashian disease. Meanwhile, Aunty and SBS can still survive under the mercy of pollies and tax payer's money.  Lucky you still don't need to pay for the weather forecast. Hang on a minute mate. Bureau of Meteorology is a government agency and run by tax payer's money as well!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Mind you, Gen Z don't have newspaper, TV, books, owned home. They don't have money as well. Only thing they possess is the new and shining iPhone. — Good old newspapers are almost gone in this country. Reading the news that Fairfax, owner of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, is keep laying off quality journalists to reduce the cost of running business. Everyday, I can see The Age newspaper becomes thinner and thinner. Favourite columnists and columns are nicked off the newspaper one by one. I wonder whether this trend would bring the civilization back to the dark age soon? Next one is going to disappear in this country is free air TVs.  Tabloid TVs, like Channel 7, 9, 10, how do they can survive under the attack of Google TV, Apple TV, and, or the free, content pirated internet TVs? Audiences could have more choices to switch the programme they enjoy without enduring annoying, bias, racist hosts of these Tabloid TVs. Or continuously watch a few hours sports without having to buy Foxtel IQ set top box, and having to subscribe sports channel bundled with kids, celebrities gossips, and women's daily channels at the same time. Not everyone obsesses with Kardashian disease. Meanwhile, Aunty and SBS can still survive under the mercy of pollies and tax payer's money.  Lucky you still don't need to pay for the weather forecast. Hang on a minute mate. Bureau of Meteorology is a government agency and run by tax payer's money as well!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Martin Paulo Latest news is residences in Ordos are becoming to debtors from creditors after properties price dropped from RMB 20,000 (AUD 3,000+) per square meters to 3,000 (AUD 500), but still no one wants to buy. Ordos is second Dubai after resources boom (coal) and farmers sold their land for property developers. Mind you, Ordos is an inland city, surround by deserts and moorland. Environment is hash and air are polluted. But doesn't mean bubble can't exist. — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/business/global/chinas-economy-besieged-by-buildup-of-unsold-goods.html?&pagewanted=all Interesting
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Enjoy you new digital life in the cloud, not in iTune the shoe box. BTW, are you going to subscribe Spotify service after six free download months? — Well... I finally caved and signed back up to Facebook If anyone wants to find me my Facebook name is Spotify User hahaha
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak There are something no one can predict, that's act of God. Caused meltdown due to SmartSwitch is still "ON" I have to say bad luck, and this time you should talk directly to God's agent - the insurance company.  Do join life, car, home content insurance, Work Cover, professional indemnity, public liability, Medicare and private healthy insurance ... I'm a shareholder of insurance companies :-P — Registered Energy Saving plan to get FREE SmartSwitch installed at home, which sponsored by Australian Government, in another words, in full tax-payers' money. According to Embertec, up to $200 electricity bill can be saved every year after SmartSwitch installed. I'm not fully convinced. However, if $1 saved from running cost, that is $1 gain added into profit. This is lesson learned from One Dollar Economy. Read more: http://www.embertec.com.au
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak That's dumb switch instead of smart one.  Turn off light switch and go to bed is NOT too hard. But if you have TV, computers, Hi-Fi stereo spread in a few more rooms, and some switch is really hard to reach, you really need this bug to help. Even taken five minutes to switch off all of them, it's still five minutes wasted, every day. Someone says this world is created by the lazy people, not by smart and cunning men. — Registered Energy Saving plan to get FREE SmartSwitch installed at home, which sponsored by Australian Government, in another words, in full tax-payers' money. According to Embertec, up to $200 electricity bill can be saved every year after SmartSwitch installed. I'm not fully convinced. However, if $1 saved from running cost, that is $1 gain added into profit. This is lesson learned from One Dollar Economy. Read more: http://www.embertec.com.au
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonRuling a big country is like cooking a small fish (治大国,若烹小鲜). When you're frying a small fish, too much poking will ruin the meal, so the meaning is: create general policies and direction, but do not micromanage. To do this well, you must understand the ways of your people and not go against the grain. - Laozi — ROFL - You can't run a country like a business. If you did, you'd have to pay profits to investors, meaning citizens. And that's socialism! -- leLaissezFaire (@lelaissezfaire) HT: +Peter Evans-Greenwood
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNext six months will be very interesting and touchy time for the global financial market. — https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/business/global/chinas-economy-besieged-by-buildup-of-unsold-goods.html?&pagewanted=all Interesting
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+David Martin Yeah, that's an ideal combination put in your bag. Small screen device with internet access, big screen device with Wifi for reading and presentation.  2GB Ram, 1.6G Quad-Core processor, Samsung Galaxy Note II has a big on hardware scale. 5.5 screen is only a bit bigger than 4.8 Galaxy S3. But with S Pen let you back to traditional paper and pencil time. I reckon it's more natural and elegant way human being interact with computer. Use the fat and oily fingers, on the contrary, to input is very awkward, like people taste finger food. Going to a shop has Galaxy Note I demo tomorrow. Get a feeling how 5.5 screen feel and like in hands and with a pen. — I wonder whether you still need to keep your Samsung Galaxy S3 and Google Nexus 7 if you have Samsung Galaxy Notes II in hands. With S Pen makes you feel like a normal person than a single finger typist.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA crappy camera and a crappy smartphone combined together creating a brilliant product! — Samsung Galaxy Camera is running Android Jelly Bean 4.1. Designed for those people who have no idea about "smartphone" but only use it as a camera. 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIf your organisation runs on Windows boxes and network, Microsoft still has the Outlook, Office, Communicator, Remote Desktop, Exchange, Sharepoint, Schedule which you can use it to book room and Active Directory keep all the resources in one place. All these applications are integrated into a solution in one piece. Though individual application are not feel so good in many dimensions.  Gmail, Google Documents and G+ are great when they "home" alone, but just too separated and too far away when try to brink them together. — Tell that to all the corporate IT mob ;)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTo people who bought Raspberry Pi for $35, the case for $15, you should lick your paws (hands) and pray how luck you are while you were born so later! — • Weight: 35.5 kg (78 lbs) • Power: 350 W • Display: None. It used a small printer and a roll of paper 9 cm wide. • Memory: Approximately 240 bytes. • Storage: Magnetic cards. Programs could be split over multiple cards if they didn’t fit on one. • CPU: None. This was before microprocessors, and integrated circuits had not really arrived on the scene yet. The logic was all made up of transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors. • Cost: $3,200.00 Almost 50 years ago, in 1965, World First Personal Computer - Programma 101 was born in Italy. Read more:  http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/28/the-first-pc-from-1965/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLawyers are always winners. They made about 50 - 100 millions dollars. Doesn't matter which side you are on. — Less choice, more expensive Open Source based products, richer lawyers... The world just became a better place.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe biggest topic last week is whether resource boom is over. I reckon this should cause more serious concern than property bubble busted in Sunshine "Who care" Coast. No population, no job growth, no production, only retirees living on the pension and speculation. If there is any bubble could make big sound when busted, Sunshine Coast and speculators who borrowed million dollars deserve to get lose at all. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddEvery country has the judicial system which is favour local native grow companies. So that's why the verdict Samsung having infringed Apple's patents in U.S court, Apple infringed Samsung's patents in South Korea, both of them infringed each other's patents in U.K.    Consumers are not always losers, if they would enjoy dog fighting ... — Less choice, more expensive Open Source based products, richer lawyers... The world just became a better place.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWith Spring and Spring MVC already built it, Grails offers you a rapid platform to develop web based application. But I want to know how to add Spring WS, Spring Webflow into Grails, and do it not in Java style, but Grails fashion. — Why Groovy? There are a lot goodies in Groovy language. Two examples: MetaClass - http://blog.terrencemiao.com/archives/metaclass-in-groovy MockFor mock object - http://blog.terrencemiao.com/archives/mock-object-return-non-sense-error-in-unit-test-in-grails Remember in last project because Mr.B hated getter and setter that pollute codes in DTO (Data Transfer Object) all over the world, he used Java Reflection, finding out all properties in POJO class, getProperty and setProperty in POJO without having get and set codes one by one. In Groovy, it's built in feature, and one line only: metaClass.setProperties(this, map.findAll { key, value -> this.hasProperty(key) }) Also you don't need Mockito to mock objects in unit test. Groovy already have MockFor which supports (typically unit) testing of classes in isolation by allowing a strictly ordered expectation of the behavior of collaborators to be defined. Save your time, with less and clean codes. That's you call "Advance Groovy language".
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy websites signed on banning IE are all p0rn websites?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy  — Why Groovy? There are a lot goodies in Groovy language. Two examples: MetaClass - http://blog.terrencemiao.com/archives/metaclass-in-groovy MockFor mock object - http://blog.terrencemiao.com/archives/mock-object-return-non-sense-error-in-unit-test-in-grails Remember in last project because Mr.B hated getter and setter that pollute codes in DTO (Data Transfer Object) all over the world, he used Java Reflection, finding out all properties in POJO class, getProperty and setProperty in POJO without having get and set codes one by one. In Groovy, it's built in feature, and one line only: metaClass.setProperties(this, map.findAll { key, value -> this.hasProperty(key) }) Also you don't need Mockito to mock objects in unit test. Groovy already have MockFor which supports (typically unit) testing of classes in isolation by allowing a strictly ordered expectation of the behavior of collaborators to be defined. Save your time, with less and clean codes. That's you call "Advance Groovy language".
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLess and less people are still convinced the pie Facebook drew of the share of market it could prospective.  — For +Terrence Miao Six reasons why Facebook is a $7 Stock http://t.co/FCFByYCj -- Vincent Vella (@vincent_vella) HT: +Peter Evans-Greenwood
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIn October is the time that a few big Facebook shareholders could execute their options. That will give a lot pressure on the already stressed FB share price. Think about these people got FB shares either free or paid under 5c per share, like the gold parachute for them no matter stock market is bull or bear. — For +Terrence Miao Six reasons why Facebook is a $7 Stock http://t.co/FCFByYCj -- Vincent Vella (@vincent_vella) HT: +Peter Evans-Greenwood
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni The "private" data put in cloud I reckon should be important, but not life-threaten critical. That mean FBI and MI5 could find a long list of girls you dated with, but they never could find out your bank accounts in tax avoid heaven Bahamas. In ensure your competitors never can steal, the only place I trust is a sealed pocket in my undies ...   — Installed and setup my first ever Home / Small Office NAS device this weekend. Connected with three PCs, via wireless Network 300MB. Two WD Green 1TB hard disks have been configured as RAID-1 (mirrored). Performance for read and write is good and solid. NAS is not a PC. It's much smaller and quieter and less electricity consumed. It also supports slow spin after a few minutes inactivity, and wake up on LAN features, or totally power off it in cron setting. However, NAS is not a private cloud. It doesn't have application layer on the top. Though, it can installed added-on application like streaming, photo sharing, and pre-installed a torrent client, 256MB memory and a less powerful processor is not good enough for intensive cloud computing. I used to have hard disk enclosure connected to PC via USB port and shared on the network. The problem is USB device can't have multiple simultaneously access, and burning a 200W power consumed PC is horrendous just for file sharing. Now the money invested:  • Netgear RND 2000: $215 • Two WD 1TB hard disks: $174 Less than $400 you can have a NAS solution at home / small office is unbelievable. Think about several years ago, NAS solution is only available for big corporates with the price tag around one hundred thousands dollars. New technology changes quality of the life you and me.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniPlease remember checking and replying your G+ everyday, even during your holiday. Thank you. :-P — Almost my 3 year anniversary in my current job (IT Manager in the Faculty of Science) and I'm about to take my first "holiday" (when you exclude Christmas & Easter) :-O
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI have thought about it afterward maybe, for small business, there is no need to have a centralised, powerful server in the data center room. PCs connect and run office tool and email in the cloud. A local network NAS for file sharing (speed and performance), and backup. That's almost all. — Installed and setup my first ever Home / Small Office NAS device this weekend. Connected with three PCs, via wireless Network 300MB. Two WD Green 1TB hard disks have been configured as RAID-1 (mirrored). Performance for read and write is good and solid. NAS is not a PC. It's much smaller and quieter and less electricity consumed. It also supports slow spin after a few minutes inactivity, and wake up on LAN features, or totally power off it in cron setting. However, NAS is not a private cloud. It doesn't have application layer on the top. Though, it can installed added-on application like streaming, photo sharing, and pre-installed a torrent client, 256MB memory and a less powerful processor is not good enough for intensive cloud computing. I used to have hard disk enclosure connected to PC via USB port and shared on the network. The problem is USB device can't have multiple simultaneously access, and burning a 200W power consumed PC is horrendous just for file sharing. Now the money invested:  • Netgear RND 2000: $215 • Two WD 1TB hard disks: $174 Less than $400 you can have a NAS solution at home / small office is unbelievable. Think about several years ago, NAS solution is only available for big corporates with the price tag around one hundred thousands dollars. New technology changes quality of the life you and me.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni No idea. Maybe it's proprietary filesystem owned by Netgear, i.e., a heavy customised Linux kernel :-) Offering SMB/CIFS for Windows, and AFP for Apple access. Why 1TB disks, money mate!   — Installed and setup my first ever Home / Small Office NAS device this weekend. Connected with three PCs, via wireless Network 300MB. Two WD Green 1TB hard disks have been configured as RAID-1 (mirrored). Performance for read and write is good and solid. NAS is not a PC. It's much smaller and quieter and less electricity consumed. It also supports slow spin after a few minutes inactivity, and wake up on LAN features, or totally power off it in cron setting. However, NAS is not a private cloud. It doesn't have application layer on the top. Though, it can installed added-on application like streaming, photo sharing, and pre-installed a torrent client, 256MB memory and a less powerful processor is not good enough for intensive cloud computing. I used to have hard disk enclosure connected to PC via USB port and shared on the network. The problem is USB device can't have multiple simultaneously access, and burning a 200W power consumed PC is horrendous just for file sharing. Now the money invested:  • Netgear RND 2000: $215 • Two WD 1TB hard disks: $174 Less than $400 you can have a NAS solution at home / small office is unbelievable. Think about several years ago, NAS solution is only available for big corporates with the price tag around one hundred thousands dollars. New technology changes quality of the life you and me.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Alex Megremis I hope it is a device with embedded open source Linux run inside it. But don't think manufacturer will open the hardware spec and interface for hacking activities.  — Installed and setup my first ever Home / Small Office NAS device this weekend. Connected with three PCs, via wireless Network 300MB. Two WD Green 1TB hard disks have been configured as RAID-1 (mirrored). Performance for read and write is good and solid. NAS is not a PC. It's much smaller and quieter and less electricity consumed. It also supports slow spin after a few minutes inactivity, and wake up on LAN features, or totally power off it in cron setting. However, NAS is not a private cloud. It doesn't have application layer on the top. Though, it can installed added-on application like streaming, photo sharing, and pre-installed a torrent client, 256MB memory and a less powerful processor is not good enough for intensive cloud computing. I used to have hard disk enclosure connected to PC via USB port and shared on the network. The problem is USB device can't have multiple simultaneously access, and burning a 200W power consumed PC is horrendous just for file sharing. Now the money invested:  • Netgear RND 2000: $215 • Two WD 1TB hard disks: $174 Less than $400 you can have a NAS solution at home / small office is unbelievable. Think about several years ago, NAS solution is only available for big corporates with the price tag around one hundred thousands dollars. New technology changes quality of the life you and me.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNothing but brilliant! — "The doodles are fun charming, playful and engaging, most of all they are relevant and sometimes even surprising - all this portrays some of the Google's personality." And as long as the company retains its dominance, those sketches and scribbles - whether you see them as art, design, entertainment or hard-headed branding - will be a ubiquitous part of everyday browsing.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDo you have a photo as the proof of life of your Samsung Galaxy S3 and invoice telling that you have paid the ransom in full amount? — Well. Signed my life (one year) away and picked up a Galaxy S3... pretty nice phone.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNext time, you go for a deep water fishing, look at this picture and think it again! — Photo of the day - A 50-foot-long whale shark dwarfs a boat off the coast of Cancun, Mexico by Shawn Heinrichs
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Commented on post by Casper CasperWow,  hackers could remotely erase all of the data on iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. Amazing! — http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak"You're the psychopath if you don't join Facebook. You're only lonely if you're not there for you." Dr. Phil McGraw — +Dean Budd +James Gemmell +Terrence Miao +Kieran Simpson +Martin Paulo +Casper Casper  please remind me more precisely, which ones of yours is been actively (!!) avoiding Facebook? ;-) (*check the sidebar pic and text in that article!*  ;) 
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTransUrban is an unique, boring but solid business. She's a dream bride for money looking for long time partner with just-over-average, stable, but the most important secure return, every year.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTempting, but I haven't decided to get one. Still like my 10 years old 19" Sony Trinitron monitor (multiscan G450), but its colour is fading, image is getting fussy. — 24" Widescreen LED Monitor with ratio 16:10, 1920 x 1200p Resolution, 5ms Response Time, 50000:1 Contrast Ratio, DVI-D & D-Sub, Height & Pivot Adjustable, Matte Black. Selling at $234 in CPL West Melbourne shop, $229 in MSY North Melbourne shop. Quality OK product except crappy stand, but can be replaced with Yellowpages & Whitepages paper books. Mouth watering ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhich Dell model you have? Did you use it as a game console only. — 24" Widescreen LED Monitor with ratio 16:10, 1920 x 1200p Resolution, 5ms Response Time, 50000:1 Contrast Ratio, DVI-D & D-Sub, Height & Pivot Adjustable, Matte Black. Selling at $234 in CPL West Melbourne shop, $229 in MSY North Melbourne shop. Quality OK product except crappy stand, but can be replaced with Yellowpages & Whitepages paper books. Mouth watering ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonFacebook I reckon is a hedge fund's candidate, punting long or short. For ordinary investors, better shy away from it because it's hard to envision and predict its future. — For +Terrence Miao Six reasons why Facebook is a $7 Stock http://t.co/FCFByYCj -- Vincent Vella (@vincent_vella) HT: +Peter Evans-Greenwood
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFor example? — Google MapsGL is pretty awesome!
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Commented on post by Casper CasperNo one-size-fits-all solution for cross platform mobile development. HTML 5/CSS 3/JavaScript I reckon still an ultimate target in the end, depending on how good JavaScript could evolve. Flash is going to die. However, I agree with him that developers still need to understand native development in advance even develop in a non-native fashion.     — http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Mobile-Cross-Platform-Decisions
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIt's a bit like a Westerner drives his gas guzzling all wheel drive on the road and notices a guy from third country riding a bike. Westerner points his finger and asks the poor fellow "stop it and do something for the environment!"   — A sobering look at the consequences of too many people.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. Same kind story down under. Remember in Myer store IPO, the company and its CEO Bernie "BB" Brookes wooed the investors hard with Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins. But even a beautiful face is only skin deep and can't save a lousy and monkey business. — Truth of the day - Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares tumbled to an all-time low of $22.28 a day, down 40% from $38 IPO price, after the social media company reported a drastic slowdown in revenue growth. Facebook had also failed to offer financial forecasts to quell fears about its ability to boost advertising growth.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao@#$%^&*! Can I have an English word that can pronounce? — http://meebo.com is dead. Long live http://imo.im.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper PayPal, yes. eBay, no. +Oleg Kiorsak The official way to say is: Men would like spend $2 on something worth $1 but they want it. Women would like spend $1 on something worth $2 but they don't want it. — Ripped off Aussies Becoming an Apple guy is a tough life decision, like you want to marry someone you are not sure whether you should fully commit. Buying a MacBook Pro doesn't mean always a happy ending, like you have finally married someone then find  out there are something you really don't know about her. This happened to me when I try to squeeze a little more juicy out from an Apple. 13" screen size is good enough for web browsing but not good enough if you try to see 10 apps window opened at the same time while coding. In addition, you don't want to program later and play some music to relax then find out it's already 2am, your dog even your noisy pain-in-the-backend neighbours have got into sleep.   I went to Apple Online shop and had a look.  A mini Display Port to VGA Adapter for Apple Macbook Pro costs 30 bucks. An Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic $35.  Oh dear ...  Oh shit ... Immediately I felt I had been trapped into a booby trap wishfully set up by Apple for the dumb silly people. I had to admire Apple's sale skill luring unsophisticated consumers with their cheap or free lollies. But $65 for such simple accessories for a pocket shallow person is like legally rob a man in daylight and in public.  Also I went to the local JB-HiFi, Dick Smith and Good Guys for bargains. Unfortunately, same accessories cost the same price as Apple Online shop. This is maybe why Steve Jobs wages "thermonuclear war" in the patent fight. Great monopoly! But enough is enough. $65 is not too big but still better put into Australian Government bond which return 10% per annual currently than buying something then worthy nothing one year later. Finally I was back on eBay, a company which has the lousy reputation for fraudulent and trickery business practice, which I had distanced for more than five years. Quickly I find out Apple's accessories duplicators I wanted to ... A mini Display Port to VGA Adapter for Apple Macbook Pro for $7.79. An Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic $3.50. Made in China, shipped from Hong Kong with free international shipment. 20 days later, Both of my order arrived. Plugged them into MBP, everything worked fine. They are maybe not as shiny as the "genuine" ones, but they carry on their work and do very well.  Is it time rip it back Aussies?
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Legacy system supports IE 6 only. — Internet Explorer : A simple Windows tool which allows the user to browse to Mozilla.com and download Firefox, a web browser.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni http://blog.terrencemiao.com/archives/a-pc-persons-guide-to-mac — Ripped off Aussies Becoming an Apple guy is a tough life decision, like you want to marry someone you are not sure whether you should fully commit. Buying a MacBook Pro doesn't mean always a happy ending, like you have finally married someone then find  out there are something you really don't know about her. This happened to me when I try to squeeze a little more juicy out from an Apple. 13" screen size is good enough for web browsing but not good enough if you try to see 10 apps window opened at the same time while coding. In addition, you don't want to program later and play some music to relax then find out it's already 2am, your dog even your noisy pain-in-the-backend neighbours have got into sleep.   I went to Apple Online shop and had a look.  A mini Display Port to VGA Adapter for Apple Macbook Pro costs 30 bucks. An Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic $35.  Oh dear ...  Oh shit ... Immediately I felt I had been trapped into a booby trap wishfully set up by Apple for the dumb silly people. I had to admire Apple's sale skill luring unsophisticated consumers with their cheap or free lollies. But $65 for such simple accessories for a pocket shallow person is like legally rob a man in daylight and in public.  Also I went to the local JB-HiFi, Dick Smith and Good Guys for bargains. Unfortunately, same accessories cost the same price as Apple Online shop. This is maybe why Steve Jobs wages "thermonuclear war" in the patent fight. Great monopoly! But enough is enough. $65 is not too big but still better put into Australian Government bond which return 10% per annual currently than buying something then worthy nothing one year later. Finally I was back on eBay, a company which has the lousy reputation for fraudulent and trickery business practice, which I had distanced for more than five years. Quickly I find out Apple's accessories duplicators I wanted to ... A mini Display Port to VGA Adapter for Apple Macbook Pro for $7.79. An Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic $3.50. Made in China, shipped from Hong Kong with free international shipment. 20 days later, Both of my order arrived. Plugged them into MBP, everything worked fine. They are maybe not as shiny as the "genuine" ones, but they carry on their work and do very well.  Is it time rip it back Aussies?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWow, a religion let you devote your life to God and Capitalism. — Mormons don’t get drunk. They have large families, stable marriages and a three-month supply of food in the larder in case of Armageddon. They are usually clean-cut and neatly dressed. And they have a passion for business. Mormon men serve as missionaries for two years when they turn 19; women for 18 months when they turn 21. They have no choice over where they go and often have to learn a foreign language. They are cut off from their families (they are allowed only two phone calls home a year) and assigned a “companion” to keep them on the straight and narrow. They are expected to proselytise for ten hours a day, six days a week. Few other groups experience anything as demanding at a similar age.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Banks are not like tobacco companies which most their products won't kill their customers. Banks are living in every part of your life. Though your bias and "narrow-minded" view on banks and bankers, I'd still like nominate you as Aussie of the Year 2013 Reward -  http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/page4.asp, for your active   live and life on social media G+.  Hopefully, the judge panel won't disqualify you in 1st round because they find out actually you were born in Italy, and you spend most of your adulthood time drinking beer and playing computer games in Kiwiland. — The kind of person who can simplify the complicated issue, explain it to others effectively and make most people understand is regarded as a very special and incredible ability.   The other kind of person who can make simple thing become more complicated, then confuse everyone in the room is also regarded as a very special and incredible ability. According to Monkeys-To-Men theory, silly and dumb animals should be extinct ahead, but in real life there are more latter person than the first. How come it could be?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonCanada Pension Fund tried to buy out TransUrban in May 2010 looks like a very smart maneuver now. 
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe other day, I was very reluctantly asking sysadmin to downgrade IE on my PC from version 8 to 6. Rather than regretting missing a "modern" browser like IE 8, I got a IE 6 ThinApp installed. That mean I have both IE 6 & 8 on the same PC. Read more for ThinApp solution - http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html Lesson learned that always there is a medicine for every pain in your back if you like to pay for. — Internet Explorer : A simple Windows tool which allows the user to browse to Mozilla.com and download Firefox, a web browser.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSame design concept like Motorola Atrix 4G with Lapdock? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20031251-1.html — Wondering what to do with all that tech in your pocket?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRight click and download on your PC. No zoom feature and real size view in g+ really kindly piss off people. — The douchebag's guide to sociable from Online Dating University
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGovernments should consider stop all kind the gold mining around the world. No point than a sustainable and peaceful approach like set up electronic waste processing facility, I mean modern alchemy shop in your family's backyard. <hahaha /> — Fact of the day - Older motherboards contain typically 200g per tonne of the precious metal whereas the gold content in newer-generation boards is generally between 30 and 100g per tonne. This purity is much higher than average gold amount per tonne of ore which is 0.136 oz (3.86g).  About 320 tonnes gold, value $16 billions, 7500 tonnes silver, worth $5 billions are consumed in all electronic goods produced every year.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUS$17,500 price is TV only. That cute girl in the photo is NOT included. — Samsung to launch its OLED TV The 75-inch 75ES9000 only 7.9mm slim and sell only for US$17,500. Read more: http://asia.cnet.com/samsung-serves-up-a-75-inch-led-tv-for-us17500-62217524.htm
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Good point Deano! Merge should be as insignificant as possible in development. If merge takes outstanding amount time, either it's design fault, or the false efficiency of task splitting. One thing I like Git is it does smart merge. Most of time, you just commit your codes, Git has an intelligent solution merge them without too many human intervention.  — DeltaWalker Five years ago, we had WinMerge and P4Merge doing file comparison and merge. Today we have Deltopia DeltaWalker to carry on more sophisticated work, and do it better. Base on Eclipse platform (so it can run on Windows, Mac and Linux), this genuine productive tool helping you look deeply inside your project, files or folder, sync, compare and merge, what you did great, what you did just crap. Read more:  http://www.deltopia.com/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA typical use case for 3-way comparison: Source code A, both you and me check out and modify. You finish first, check in as B, I modify as C and want to check in. Need 3-way comparison to see what you have changed from A to B and what I have changed from A to C. Though still can use two-way comparison. But 3-way is more clean and easily to understand. — DeltaWalker Five years ago, we had WinMerge and P4Merge doing file comparison and merge. Today we have Deltopia DeltaWalker to carry on more sophisticated work, and do it better. Base on Eclipse platform (so it can run on Windows, Mac and Linux), this genuine productive tool helping you look deeply inside your project, files or folder, sync, compare and merge, what you did great, what you did just crap. Read more:  http://www.deltopia.com/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFolders and three-way comparison and merge are big shot. Don't know what +Dean Budd Deano's opinion. He usually has a very extinguish taste if he is not sloshed.  — DeltaWalker Five years ago, we had WinMerge and P4Merge doing file comparison and merge. Today we have Deltopia DeltaWalker to carry on more sophisticated work, and do it better. Base on Eclipse platform (so it can run on Windows, Mac and Linux), this genuine productive tool helping you look deeply inside your project, files or folder, sync, compare and merge, what you did great, what you did just crap. Read more:  http://www.deltopia.com/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI'm still waiting for my first electricity bill with Solar Panel saving and Carbon Tax extravaganza. Will publish comparison later. — Day 2 of carbon tax. Still here. Worked out that if I save 1kWh/day I save more $ than my electricity bill goes up. Use less = no brainer. -- Kieran Simpson (@kierans777)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak I'm testing Oro version which have three way comparison. I can't whinge too much so far. — DeltaWalker Five years ago, we had WinMerge and P4Merge doing file comparison and merge. Today we have Deltopia DeltaWalker to carry on more sophisticated work, and do it better. Base on Eclipse platform (so it can run on Windows, Mac and Linux), this genuine productive tool helping you look deeply inside your project, files or folder, sync, compare and merge, what you did great, what you did just crap. Read more:  http://www.deltopia.com/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddApple uses a small teams of 3 to produce iPhone features. • A designer to make it pretty • A developer to make it functional • And a lawyer to sue Android
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWhat kind lens do you have now? — I need a little more practice with the 200mm lens to get the focusing right.  And I should probably learn a bit more about the various functions to improve the light balance.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAccording to Android head honcho Andy Rubin, when the Nexus 7 is sold via Google Play it is sold at no margin. Google is further taking a hit by offering a $25 Google Play credit during the initial round of sales. Several investment banks analysts have upgraded Nexus 7 from neutral to buy
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf you still use Emacs.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWrists and hands feel amazingly comfortable in it. There's this faux-leather thing that's really nice to rest hands on, much better than straight-up plastic. It's not terribly loud, but not terribly quiet. This is pretty much the holy grail of keyboards to someone.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEfficient typists don’t look at their keyboards. So why do others insist on labeling the keys?  Turns out you’ll type faster than you ever dreamed on one of these blank babies. And that’s not to mention its powers of intimidation. Sometimes less really is more.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLooking forward Google I/O 2012. Looking forward Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean) and $199 Nexus 7. I reckon Google is losing money selling Nexus 7 in such price. Considering to buy one for my dog or mount it in toilet - Continuous Coding even during the "system core dumping" time :-)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMonaco Truetype font for Windows I download is like Monaco font that Mac has. There some details and way Mac renders the font which Windows doesn't do the same. Turn back to Consolas font on Windows. — Good Programming Font Criteria • Crisp clear characters. • Extended characterset. • Good use of whitespace. • 'l', '1' and 'i' are easily distinguished • '0', 'o' and 'O' are easily distinguished • forward quotes from back quotes are easily distinguished - prefer mirrored appearance • Clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, this is not only an aesthetic issue, but also productive issue. Do you want an ugly font tortures your eyes, your body, your mental eight hours a day, five days a week? In the same theory, I reckon both you and me agree that developers are more behaviour gentlemanly and well disciplined when they work closely with beautiful ladies in office, rather than rude, bastardo like with a cohort of fat women. — Good Programming Font Criteria • Crisp clear characters. • Extended characterset. • Good use of whitespace. • 'l', '1' and 'i' are easily distinguished • '0', 'o' and 'O' are easily distinguished • forward quotes from back quotes are easily distinguished - prefer mirrored appearance • Clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDDD - Deadline Driven Development Everyone claims practicing Agile these days. Agile makes dead cat bounce, makes dead fish overturn itself. — A colleague just showed me a classic example of EDD or what he calls Error Driven Development LOL! 1. Change the code to do what you want it to do. 2. Hack the failing test (by relaxing expectations) so it passes.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIntelliJ has the terrible default font on Windows and Mac. Have installed Monaco Truetype font on Windows (it's default programming font on Mac), both Eclipse & IntelliJ are using the same fonts across Windows and Mac now. Less disruptive uneasiness ... — Good Programming Font Criteria • Crisp clear characters. • Extended characterset. • Good use of whitespace. • 'l', '1' and 'i' are easily distinguished • '0', 'o' and 'O' are easily distinguished • forward quotes from back quotes are easily distinguished - prefer mirrored appearance • Clear punctuation characters, especially braces, parenthesis and brackets
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis is evil side of Apple - technology without environment concern.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI reckon Nigel Farage has the attitude problem. Too negative. Too naive. He doesn't understand if Europe recycle the debts among them their banks, the debt maybe, hopefully by any luck, could be disappeared or gone at one end one day. And everyone is happier.  — Nigel Farage's Latest Epic Rant 100 billion euros to prop up the Spanish banking system, and 20% must come from Italy. And under the deal the Italians have to lend to the Spanish banks at 3 per cent but to get that money they have to borrow on the markets at 7 per cent. It’s genius isn’t it. It really is brilliant ... Read more: http://www.silverdoctors.com/nigel-farages-latest-epic-rant-the-genius-of-mutual-indebtedness/  
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Commented on post by Casper CasperInstall Xcode today, 3.5 GB disk space! But I only use it to build MacPorts package. — 4th IDE change required for work this month; visual studio (C#) -> xcode (iOS) -> eclipse (android) -> intellij (existing java project). I hope intellij has good keyboard shortcuts !
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Commented on post by Casper CasperUsing default keymap in IntelliJ which copy and paste are Crtl + Insert and Shift + Insert. This slows me down cause it's not default Windows behaviour - Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. Using Eclipse keymap in IntelliJ now, more consistence. Also I have IdeaVIM plugin in IntelliJ, VIplugin in Eclipse. Can't stand keep moving one of your hand between mouse and keyboard. Both of your hands should always stick on keyboards as long as possible.  BTW, MacBook Pro copy and paste key combo, Command + C and Command + V are 0.05 second quicker than PC keyboard after I have measured in my brain. Because the keys distance on Mac is shorter than a standard PC keyboard.  — 4th IDE change required for work this month; visual studio (C#) -> xcode (iOS) -> eclipse (android) -> intellij (existing java project). I hope intellij has good keyboard shortcuts !
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakBrilliant app! — does what it says!! :)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoG+ is for sophisticated people.  Facebook ruins simple-minded boys and girls :-) — Quote of the day - Facebook is doing exactly the same thing as tobacco companies did to our children - seeking to get kids hooked as early as possible, although there is no hard evidence link Facebook to the deadly cancer so far.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperCPL is selling 24" Samsung S24B300H 5ms HDMI for the same spec at the same price $171.00 - http://www.cplonline.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_default.tpl&product_id=9334&category_id=406&vmcchk=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2 I would rather buy this 24" Samsung monitor which has1920x1200 resolution at $259.00 - http://www.cplonline.com.au/online-shop?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_default.tpl&product_id=7072&category_id=406 — $172 for a 24" full HD monitor http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=au&cs=audhs1&l=en&s=dhs&sku=230-12043&r&dgc=EM&cid=33187&lid=783209&acd=TPZUCQJ-DEROD-5JKQJ-D6556-E342N-v1
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIs it end of Newspaper, end of quality journalism in this country? Time will tell. I have stopped subscribing newspaper. Instead I have subscribed  TheAge, The Australian (Wall Street Journal inside Business section), and Herald "Horny" Sun online subscription. Financial Review also has online version. It is a part of Fairfax, but too expensive to me. Anyway, time to switch British tabloid DailyMail. That's my tip. If you pay less attention to those half naked women on the top half page, there are still some good quality articles and great photos at the bottom half, or at corners ...  — You wont be able to quote the SMH for free anymore +Terrence Miao :p
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Only in sarcastic way. Because lack of natural resources like Queensland & WA, and slave trading is totally banned, what else state government can do except building more unoccupied houses and collecting stamp duty and council rate? — Fact of day - PROPERTY is the largest industry in Victoria, contributing $36.9 billion, or 12.2%, to the gross state product of $301.4 billion. Manufacturing 11.9% the second, and finance and insurance 10.5% in third place. Build more houses and raise the insurance levy and get state economy out of the hole. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/property-victorias-big-earner-20120410-1wn3k.html
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSign in with your Facebook account. Obviously you have already committed suicide of your FB account, so there is no point to allow you into Spotify :-P — How do you sign up to Spotify? I just get either a weird blank page or a page for the iPad app
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell 12% is never too big at all. But stamp duty go to State Revenue Office's coffer directly. Other tax collected, for example GST, state government has to beg Federal government mercy to allocate more back to state. Money in your pocket and money in your bank account are totally two different things I reckon :-) — Fact of day - PROPERTY is the largest industry in Victoria, contributing $36.9 billion, or 12.2%, to the gross state product of $301.4 billion. Manufacturing 11.9% the second, and finance and insurance 10.5% in third place. Build more houses and raise the insurance levy and get state economy out of the hole. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/property-victorias-big-earner-20120410-1wn3k.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRevenue statistics is for Victoria.  — Fact of day - PROPERTY is the largest industry in Victoria, contributing $36.9 billion, or 12.2%, to the gross state product of $301.4 billion. Manufacturing 11.9% the second, and finance and insurance 10.5% in third place. Build more houses and raise the insurance levy and get state economy out of the hole. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/property-victorias-big-earner-20120410-1wn3k.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Love these RBA statistics. You can see how lucky Australian are - "Earn more and more money; do less and less work; and your office is almost a few steps away to your home.' — Quote of the day - "Europe is the equivalent of a 70-year old retired person deciding to take out the biggest mortgage of their life." With the US climbing off the deck and the nearly 3 billion people of Asia industrialising, it would seem we are in for a tremendous period for the sharemarket once we are out of the current mess.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOh man, this is not a billion but at least a million dollars question to answer. Banking system, social welfare, productivity, governance ... so many problems in Europe countries need to solve. EU seems a failed try. The hope is still in U.S. which I agree with the author. If U.S. economy is back to healthy growth, whole world will be benefited, incl. Europe countries as well.  — Quote of the day - "Europe is the equivalent of a 70-year old retired person deciding to take out the biggest mortgage of their life." With the US climbing off the deck and the nearly 3 billion people of Asia industrialising, it would seem we are in for a tremendous period for the sharemarket once we are out of the current mess.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe last thing Apple can do at its best. — Good God. It never ends!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniBu a good quality telephoto zoom lens man! You've missed rare great photo opportunity :-)  — In June we were visited by the crimson rosellas, but back in May it was the eastern rosellas who stopped by.  Unlike their crimson counterparts, these rosellas were getting stuck into the seed pods from our liquid amber tree. Lucky for me that the sun came out from behind the clouds just before they flew away.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOptimistic future view of investors, high spiritual spending of consumers and generously lending bankers between 1998 to 2008 gave one of the best 10 years in Australian property market. Don't believe this gold age of property investment will be back soon. Uncertainty will be settled, wealth will grow, in a long, slow and painful way ahead.  — Opposition Leader Tony "You-Mad-Monk" Abbott and opposition treasure Joe "The Buffoon" Hockey did a great job on their opposition duty, painting Australia as a country going down everyday, making Australia from a lucky and happy country to an angry country.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Even mnemonic passwords, however, are not invulnerable. A study published in cracked 4% of the mnemonics in a sample using a dictionary based on song lyrics, film titles and the like. +Oleg Kiorsak I have invented and patented "muscle memory" to help people remember their passwords. Other day when I tried to access my bank account on my tablet in the street, I just couldn't remember exact password I have typed thousand times. However, after back into office, after I put my fingers on the standard U.S keyboard, immediately I login bank account. This situation happened several times for me when use my other passwords as well. Don't know what exact password is, but as soon as my hands on keyboard, all the muscle coordinate harmonically and get me through the security checkpoint without a single failure. — The economists view on passwords - All security is irritating (ask anyone who flies regularly), and there is a constant tension between people’s desire to be safe and their desire for things to be simple. While that tension persists, the hacker will always get through.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAll the brouhaha in housing industry, including ABS. — Steve "Merchant of Gloom" Keen still shorts Australian house even after he has lost housing bet against Rory Robertson, Macquarie Group interest rate strategist in Nov 2009 soon after GFC.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIt's a really beautiful piece of art when you hold it in your hand, I mean it. You can live a life without love. But you can't live a life without this beauty :-)  — Samsung Galaxy S3 - directly from first pressing If you don't pop into a pub and fuel your bladder with yellow coloured stuff after work on Friday, what else you can do? Surprisingly know the red hot Samsung Galaxy S3 released in Australian market on its first shift, I found a Vodofail shop was selling it when I turned corner in Swanston street. Grabbed a white S3 in my hand I kept playing with it for half an hour. It's just an amazing blissful experience. • stunning beautiful large screen, but still can hold firmly in single hand • vivid and rich colour, remind me when I was watching a 50"++ Smart TV in electronic goods shop, with $4,000 - $5,000 price tag and the saliva full of my mouth • so thin and so light. I worry that I could break it into pieces if I squeeze harder. Better buy a thick and heavy protected case as well when order the phone • If Flipboard is the only killer application for iOS that kill Android thousands time, Flipboard, let me say it again Flipboard is running on ICS on S3 now! • ICS in developer mode has GPS mock. This is great news for people test GPS based application. I still remember a poor tester had to carry a phone testing the app on the way to office and back way to home. Anyway, this is a phone worth of all your time you have waited for. Already there is an Aussie shop on internet is selling S3 for $718.95 now. The price will keep dropping if you are a bit more patient.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Still love rails principle and philosophy. Grails I reckon is a "shameless" duplicator or Ruby on Rails, but it's good for stubborn Java hens. Depends on the application design and development required. For a small team to develop a web based app, counts on what resources you already have, RoR and Grails all can do the tricks. To do things official way, I mean Oracle way, JSF is choice. For hardcore and performance demanding app, you have to go with low level assemble language like i.e. Java :-) No idea of Django and Python framework Marty mentioned. My point is stay with mainstream, less business risk.  — JSF is too fat, Struts is too heavy, Spring MVC is light, but Java is too verbose. Then there come Groovy language and Grails framework. Hate Java, love Groovy; wish Struts to die quickly, hope long live Spring MVC. Grails is actually Spring MVC application in disguise.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot know about a lot businesses, for Hi-Tech companies, AFAIK, maybe only one company's share price never below its IPO price in its whole floating history, so far. This company is called Google.  Google's IPO price is $85. It hit $100 on its first day. It is still around $600 today.  You can always find good businesses, at a time its share is selling at a silly price that open the door to make your money. The longer a company on the public market, under public eyes, either a robust or a lousy business it could prove itself. Interesting enough, Google's declared code of conduct is "Don't be evil", a phrase which they went so far as to include in their prospectus for their 2004 IPO, noting, "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains." Facebook, obviously, doesn't belong to this category at all in its IPO. — Quote of the day - "Mark Zuckerberg is still on his honeymoon, but many investors already want a divorce."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA few lessons learned from historical Facebook floating: 1. Never buy something hype 2. Never buy a business in its IPO 3. A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail If you like the sound of bubble popped, keep watching this place. — Quote of the day - "Mark Zuckerberg is still on his honeymoon, but many investors already want a divorce."
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOMFG! I wonder how manufacturer could make money on such price tag. Hmmm ... maybe I should buy a few hanging them on the wall in toilets, so I can keep coding during the dumping time :-D — I wonder how this stacks up against other tabs. +Terrence Miao?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhat can you improve a train driver's skill set? Can't do U-Turn, can't speed up to pass another train ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Gleeson Need to change my PC mindset. Keep reminding me "Don't panic, this is a Mac." <hahaha /> — A PC person's guide to Mac Bought a lowest entry level Macbook Pro 13" i5 refurbished during the week. This is the first ever Apple product I bought. I'm not a fan boy of sleeky, popular iPhone. I keep poo-pooing iPad. But because of the admiration of MBP's impeccable design and high quality, moreover as a tribute to Steve Jobs, I join the cohort of yuppies, with a silver MPB on my laptop. However, as a typical PC person living a life of hacker. There should no boundary, no limitation, no rules can't be broken. In order to maximise all the potentials inside this piece of hardware, and get my investment back, I also ordered 16GB DDR3 RAM, 240GB SATA3 SSD this week from two computer parts shops, at the best price I can find on the market. After some tweak work to get rid of the bottleneck in the overall performance, finally this baby is muscled up. Refurbished MBP, $1189.00 paid on credit card with free shipping. 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM for Mac, $150 on cash. Corsair Force SATA3 240GB SSD, $295 on cash. The happiness and achievement to get something done after a long time planning, researching, waiting, torture and agony, priceless. There is something money can't buy. For everything else, there is a Mastercard. And you have to work harder to earn your dole and make this happen.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOnly one week after switched to MBP, I found a big "compatible" - can't run Oracle database & Microsoft IE in Lion "natively". Used to be able have Oracle db 10g run in Mac OS X 10.6, but it's broken in 10.7. Haven't try Crossover to run IE. Apple seems not concern back compatibility at all. Seems Apple encourage Apple users to buy new shining products if not every month, but at least every year :=[ — A PC person's guide to Mac Bought a lowest entry level Macbook Pro 13" i5 refurbished during the week. This is the first ever Apple product I bought. I'm not a fan boy of sleeky, popular iPhone. I keep poo-pooing iPad. But because of the admiration of MBP's impeccable design and high quality, moreover as a tribute to Steve Jobs, I join the cohort of yuppies, with a silver MPB on my laptop. However, as a typical PC person living a life of hacker. There should no boundary, no limitation, no rules can't be broken. In order to maximise all the potentials inside this piece of hardware, and get my investment back, I also ordered 16GB DDR3 RAM, 240GB SATA3 SSD this week from two computer parts shops, at the best price I can find on the market. After some tweak work to get rid of the bottleneck in the overall performance, finally this baby is muscled up. Refurbished MBP, $1189.00 paid on credit card with free shipping. 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM for Mac, $150 on cash. Corsair Force SATA3 240GB SSD, $295 on cash. The happiness and achievement to get something done after a long time planning, researching, waiting, torture and agony, priceless. There is something money can't buy. For everything else, there is a Mastercard. And you have to work harder to earn your dole and make this happen.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMost reviews on Samsung Galaxy SIII are positive. Waiting for more feedback from final endusers. Pre-ordered pass 9 millions. Forget iPhone series, This will be the most popular smartphone ever.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperAngry birds?
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakRFID can built on security pass as well. In a 5-Star premium high tech office building today you have to scan security pass to open every door, get in and get out. Even without RFID, your boss can knows how long you have been out building for cigarette or still hide in the toilet. :-P — So glad RFID didn't exist back in my school days in USSR ! ;)
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakCan't see it is different than carrying a security pass. Can track people via mobile phone they are using as well, but just too expensive in operation than RFID. Cheap solution always win at last. — So glad RFID didn't exist back in my school days in USSR ! ;)
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAre you giving up your Agile practice and propaganda and become a Buddhist believer? They are two different opposite worlds. Buddhism is to find peace of mind and inner peace via dedicated meditation; Aglie, on the contrary, is about creating mess and chaos by more and more activities ... <hahaha />
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Played http://last.fm on Android tablet and Spotify on Mac. I reckon they have the same business model, free tasting at first then pay the subscription later, the most important, you can join the group of people who have the similar interest and sanguinary via social media, in my case, the Facebook. Both http://last.fm and Spotify host all the music and songs somewhere in the cloud, the intellectual right is belong to artists, audience (you) can't upload your own copy of an artist music work to cloud, not like chaotic Youtube. The success and mess created by Youtube I reckon is it walks on the brink of law and underworld. Anyway, Spotify and http://last.fm seem have a sustainable path to success. Give a play Spotify on Mac or iPad. I quite like this UI design and UX, better than iTunes I reckon. — Living a life in the cloud I logon Facebook during last week more time than I visited it in last six months. This is not because I spot on some security holes let me find out Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian in their undies or intimate video tape. One of my former colleagues who is an active Facebook hangouter, starts sharing his favourite classical music via Spotify on Facebook. Quite admire his personal interest and taste, I follow up since then everyday. I download Spotify client, play his choice of classical tune at background in the house. And I quite like it. Now there is a small problem. After six months absolutely free music, especially after you become addictive junkie, which is a very good sale practice, you'd either pay a loyalty to Spotify or be kicked out, no question asked. This let me ponder whether just like electricity, water, gas and internet are the irresistible part in our daily life, we should also subscribe online newspaper for information, streaming TV program for satisfaction that there more silly people than you and me in this world, and unlimited music in the cloud which let us find the peace inside our hearts? Imagine a simple life in the cloud, without possessions and borders ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI can see it is breathing!
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniOh man, the fastest computer and unlimited storage are in the cloud today. Today's games are played networked. TV are program streamed from internet. Why do you need spend your dear money, waste your dear time, building a D.I.Y. home PC every two years? It's so 1995. An ideal contemporary home today should be a 64"++ Plasma TV mounted on the wall (1920 x 1080 resolution, under 2500 bucks), lighting fast internet connected to home (so I voted Labor for its white elephant, money-never-return NBN project), and 13" Apple MacBook Pro on your lap (I just did it). — A stressful afternoon ensued yesterday when I decided upon the parts for my new mythtv/web/file/email "server" PC. As usual, I've bought from CPL & PCCasegear. Buying a DVB-T tuner card that is guaranteed to work under Linux appears to be more problematic than it was only a couple of years ago. Finding advice online that any PCI-E cards will work out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 12.04 was simply not possible. So I've taken a gamble on some positive forum comments with the Leadtek (it's a cheaper mistake than the Hauppauge). A silent graphics card (i.e. no fan) is proving hard to find these days. I suppose if people are after quiet, they're getting a CPU with onboard graphics. I've held back on buying more disks, in the hope that prices continue to decline. The dropping Aussie dollar might not help me in this cause for the short-term. Prices are still expensive following the floods last year. The purchase: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-x79-UD3 CPU: Intel i7-3820 CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H80 RAM: 16GB (4x4) 1600 C9 (low profile heatsinks) Graphics Card: Gigabyte GT440 (GV-N440D3-1GI) TV Tuner: Leadtek Winfast PxDVR3200H PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 750W Case: CoolerMaster CM 690 II Advanced USB3.0 Optical Drive: LiteOn IHBS312 (Blu-Ray Writer) Storage: 2 x Seagate 3TB 7200rpm Other Comments: CPU Cooler: Liquid-cooling is the only way to go with my chosen configuration. And I note that the CPU does not come bundled with a heatsink/fan. Reviews on the motherboard suggest a normal heatsink/fan setup just won't fit. PSU: This PSU is overkill for what I need, but it will allow me some expansion in the future and it comes with a 5-year warranty (unlike the lower-wattage variants with only 3). A quality PSU is not something you want to skimp on, because failure can have disastrous consequences on other components. Optical: I've always liked Pioneer drives, however I've now experienced two failures and one was horrific - it scratched the discs. The Lite-On promotes its quietness, which would be good for watching movies. Case: Has a handy in-built mount on the top of the case for hot-swap SATA disks. This will be useful for running ad-hoc backups. Disks: I will add at least 2 more 3TB disks in the near future, most likely the WD 'green' models. I had contemplated an SSD for the main OS partitions, however for a "server" setup such as mine I decided the price wasn't justified - maybe this was a mistake? So all this should be arriving shortly, and then will come the fun of putting it all together and finding out what works and what doesn't ...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Mike Nguyen Not a yuppie, just pay the premium for a good quality product. +Will Yuan Refurbished, one year only warranty and the lowest entry level MBP. Lifespan? Certainly not. Longevity? Probably not. What else you can do if you don't hack it? :-P — A PC person's guide to Mac Bought a lowest entry level Macbook Pro 13" i5 refurbished during the week. This is the first ever Apple product I bought. I'm not a fan boy of sleeky, popular iPhone. I keep poo-pooing iPad. But because of the admiration of MBP's impeccable design and high quality, moreover as a tribute to Steve Jobs, I join the cohort of yuppies, with a silver MPB on my laptop. However, as a typical PC person living a life of hacker. There should no boundary, no limitation, no rules can't be broken. In order to maximise all the potentials inside this piece of hardware, and get my investment back, I also ordered 16GB DDR3 RAM, 240GB SATA3 SSD this week from two computer parts shops, at the best price I can find on the market. After some tweak work to get rid of the bottleneck in the overall performance, finally this baby is muscled up. Refurbished MBP, $1189.00 paid on credit card with free shipping. 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM for Mac, $150 on cash. Corsair Force SATA3 240GB SSD, $295 on cash. The happiness and achievement to get something done after a long time planning, researching, waiting, torture and agony, priceless. There is something money can't buy. For everything else, there is a Mastercard. And you have to work harder to earn your dole and make this happen.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI have faith in that Craig Thomson is absolutely innocent. It's a totally smear campaign set up by conservative party. I do believe it's Craig's evil twin brother Greg Thomson made all these phone calls and embezzled Union money to pay haute escort services.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThanks Mr. Null. Slow hardware won't be the more excuse for low productivity now :-P Totally under $1700 investment will keep you happy for a long time. I reckon it will be good money spent on. If you see the used to be memory hogging applications like M$ Office and Eclipse suddenly all jump on your face when you click and open them, the blissful feeling is hardly to describe in a single word, especially you need reward and motivate yourself if you were kept in the shity work. — A PC person's guide to Mac Bought a lowest entry level Macbook Pro 13" i5 refurbished during the week. This is the first ever Apple product I bought. I'm not a fan boy of sleeky, popular iPhone. I keep poo-pooing iPad. But because of the admiration of MBP's impeccable design and high quality, moreover as a tribute to Steve Jobs, I join the cohort of yuppies, with a silver MPB on my laptop. However, as a typical PC person living a life of hacker. There should no boundary, no limitation, no rules can't be broken. In order to maximise all the potentials inside this piece of hardware, and get my investment back, I also ordered 16GB DDR3 RAM, 240GB SATA3 SSD this week from two computer parts shops, at the best price I can find on the market. After some tweak work to get rid of the bottleneck in the overall performance, finally this baby is muscled up. Refurbished MBP, $1189.00 paid on credit card with free shipping. 16GB Patriot DDR3 RAM for Mac, $150 on cash. Corsair Force SATA3 240GB SSD, $295 on cash. The happiness and achievement to get something done after a long time planning, researching, waiting, torture and agony, priceless. There is something money can't buy. For everything else, there is a Mastercard. And you have to work harder to earn your dole and make this happen.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf you don't have internet broadband connection and unlimited download quota, sorry, you are not qualified as a Mac user. Please kindly piss off.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniLook the bright side of the life. Every crisis has the opportunity bear inside it. Is it a good time to buy more share? — Wow, it has been a big week on the sharemarket! My portfolio lost over $7k in value! #csgripes
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAnd stop enormous unfair entitlement in the countries like U.K., U.S.A, Australia and even Greece. — Quote of the day - "Stop whinging and work harder. That's the only way drag the country out of recession" - William Hague
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakTo attract mother of all eyeballs you need a mother of all title :-) I don't believe China will have a hard landing. Don't believe Australian economy is going to crash neither. They are more difficulty time in this country during 80's - 90's when official interest rate is 17%. In that time, Australia didn't have an export market like China, but Aussies survived, can Australia economy got ever stronger. — +Terrence Miao let's hope China will continue to do well! ;)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCan't wait to help Apple lose more its money and mojo. — Apple iPad Mini rumours Apple is fighting back the lost battle stronghold to Android tablets, i.e., Amazon Kindle Fire. Rumoured Apple iPad Mini is scheduled to release in October. 7.85" Retina screen, 8GB storage and selling at US$ 200 - 250 at a loss ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakNot only disorder, also waste time and lose money. — http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/in-idisorder-a-look-at-mobile-device-addiction-review.html?smid=fb-share
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Commented on post by Casper CasperFPse emulator for Android let your play Diablo on Samsung Galaxy S2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62skuKHIDUc — http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/5338015/Launch_Day_Preparation_Guide-5_7_2012
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPower corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely Used for traffic monitor, nautical navigation, climate detection ... drones can be very helpful for society. However, in the hands of police, using them for surveillance, though you can say it's fighting against crime, but it also can be used spying normal citizens in public and in private. Do you want to see a drone hovering over your home, checking your kids playing in backyard, watching what you do inside house? Before police release drones to the sky, government should legislate, issue the safeguard on how to use, who to control the drones. Do you want to give up your civil rights, or do you want to shoot down the drones with your laser pointer pens? — Police can now shoot runaway criminal's car with the missile on the drone. All you need to do is sitting on a comfy chair in a room, watching on the big screen, putting your hands on the Xbox 360 wireless controller. Wow, like a child's dream do come true.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGrails at Linkedin - http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/grails-at-linked — Groovy and Grails in Action A Spring house is moving to Grails development for web based application. Plus, Spring is going to totally disappear in the middleware in this house. How come? Any unit test framework for Groovy and functional test (BDD) for Grails you know or recommend?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGetting Started with Grails web apps on Heroku/Cedar - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/grails — Groovy and Grails in Action A Spring house is moving to Grails development for web based application. Plus, Spring is going to totally disappear in the middleware in this house. How come? Any unit test framework for Groovy and functional test (BDD) for Grails you know or recommend?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFor general purpose programming, programmer productivity has always won over performance. — Groovy and Grails in Action A Spring house is moving to Grails development for web based application. Plus, Spring is going to totally disappear in the middleware in this house. How come? Any unit test framework for Groovy and functional test (BDD) for Grails you know or recommend?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThanks for reminding Spring Roo in Grails K. Check out, build and run test and deploy the first ever Grails project today and yesterday. Quite impressed with the efficiency and speed Groovy and Grails bring in. From Java background that mean you don't to learn a new language. You have the problem, you still can think in Java's way. Not like Ruby developers just because they hate Java. Having Ruby on Rails experience before that make you don't need to change your mindset. Grails vs. RoRs debate can put later. One thing I'm still in doubt is the robust an scalability of the latest script like languages. Groovy, the implication being on the top of Java and cross compilation is taking place. A colleague told me Grails in Linkedin site seems quite successful. But I'm looking for more evidence and best practices. STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) as the official development IDE, but back to home I'm running in IntelliJ. — Groovy and Grails in Action A Spring house is moving to Grails development for web based application. Plus, Spring is going to totally disappear in the middleware in this house. How come? Any unit test framework for Groovy and functional test (BDD) for Grails you know or recommend?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYeah, no doubt to Coalition economy management, but have to tolerate Tony "You-Mad-Monk" Abbott as the leader of country if Coalition on the track beating Labor in next election. Democracy not always gives you more freedom of choices. :-)
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Commented on post by Casper CasperWhat is the spec? How much weight it can support?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd All right, as you wish :-) — +James Gemmell +Dean Budd As always, Mr. J offers his profoundly insightful, thoroughly thought and carefully articulate commentary on G+, our favourite Italian boy Deano, on the other side of the river bank, often gives his the most destructive, one-big-blow-for-all judgemental remarks which leave other G+ users only shocked and stood in awe. God will love all you guys unrestrictedly ... <hahaha />
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonthe procurement of escort services - I was laughing and falling off my couch when I saw this news on ABC. — "'I have found that (Craig) Thomson has expended HSU funds for the procurement of escort services for no legitimate HSU purposes,' wrote Fair Work Australia investigator Terry Nassios" LOL - Are there legitimate HSU purposes for which one can procure escort services?
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakLove optimistic and easygoing attitude to tough life of average Australian; don't like corrupted and lazy pollies and government administrators. — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakDo you know about Australian mateship? First time when I heard PM John Howard said that I mistakingly heard as Australian matingship :-D — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakThat's exactly how tender process work, rewarding big fat contract to mates. — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak hahaha, there is no way you can beat red tape, bureaucratic government administration! — Advance Australian Bureaucracy Government made simpler - Dealing with the Australian Government online just got easier, with a single account to sign on to multiple agencies. I have registered an account in Medicare Australia ten months ago. Yesterday, when I tried to log on it just asking for a replacement card, Medicare redirected me, by default or by force, to Australia government portal. Above claim was what I saw. It seems government has secretly set up of a national integrated database, just like Big Brother did in Yes Minister, and brings in the first national identity (citizen id or user id) online. After reluctantly filled private personal information and five secure self-ask, self-answer questions, I was allocated an unique User ID. With this ID, from now on, I should access all the government agencies services online. In next hour, I wandered around government website looking for "DROP DATABASE" and "DELETE FROM" services ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLike to work in such environment with fun and creativity. — Office Rowing
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak I think Ultranet is a great initiate and proposal by State government. But good intention doesn't guarantee good implementation. From tech point view, I feel sorry and disappointed a few software vendors in the project who carried on the work. The management in the project was not sound as well. — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Have you registered your Australian Government's "National Identity" online service? :-) — Advance Australian Bureaucracy Government made simpler - Dealing with the Australian Government online just got easier, with a single account to sign on to multiple agencies. I have registered an account in Medicare Australia ten months ago. Yesterday, when I tried to log on it just asking for a replacement card, Medicare redirected me, by default or by force, to Australia government portal. Above claim was what I saw. It seems government has secretly set up of a national integrated database, just like Big Brother did in Yes Minister, and brings in the first national identity (citizen id or user id) online. After reluctantly filled private personal information and five secure self-ask, self-answer questions, I was allocated an unique User ID. With this ID, from now on, I should access all the government agencies services online. In next hour, I wandered around government website looking for "DROP DATABASE" and "DELETE FROM" services ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddOne former colleague told me if you feel too comfortable with your current job, that's the moment you should consider jumping ship.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakSpend more time on Ultranet you will find more "features". Remind me any government project is "extraordinary" :-) — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakI plead not guilty to ALL allegation on Ultranet project I did :-) Mind you, the work you did & the reputation will along with you for a long long time. Don't take it too lightly. Do you or your kids use Ultranet? — Hei +Terrence Miao just followed the link to your linked profile and noticed you work on "Ultranet"... (should make sure not to bash it too much it by a chance.. ;-)))
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI agree that current Australia economy is underperform, but comparing current situation in Europe especially UK, Australia is in a much much better shape. Great thing is that we still have moderate, under controlled inflation. Thanks God it's not deflation. Official interest rate is the highest among the major developed countries, not like U.S. and Japan have the dangerously near zero percent. And banking system in this country is healthy. That's not surprise Australia is envious or jealous by other countries. Anyway if you are "hated" by your neighbours, that mean you are super good. Either your backyard lawn is greener, or the car you drive is better, or your wife is more beautiful ... <hehehe /> — "and belief in policy makers is too high" - There I have to disagree.
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Commented on post by Alex MegremisGoodness me price, insane battery life. But such powerful tablet only equips with standard resolution (1280x800) screen feel a bit off. Keep looking. BTW, why Asus TF Prime on the right has flickering on the screen? Low scanning frequency? Acer Iconia's screen looks OK. — My search for a tablet might be over. ICS is finally showing up on tablets, and the Acer Iconia 510 seems to be just the thing for me. There's a touch of function over form, there's insane battery life, there's the unlocked bootloader. I am really interested. Opinions? And here's a quite well done comparison to the Asus Transformer Prime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yD5_dGFyzY
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Commented on post by Alex Megremis+Kieran Simpson +James Gemmell Totally irrelevant to the post. "Flip of a switch" in spring, is that Environment Profiles feature introduced in Spring 3.1, which provides runtime configuration and deployment, and you can switch profile on the fly by exposed web services or via JMX? "Annoying" annotations like @Configuration and @Profile? — Java, why did you have to wait to get to version 7 before you decided to support /static abstract/ methods?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSorry, I don't buy most (actually I mean everything) in his analysis. Retail is suffering, there is no deny for this. But this is because current retail industry is facing a fundamental change. I don't believer in anytime Aussies will stop shopping in big mall or online. "Australia is now in recession", this is a harsh and over exaggerated declamation. 3% annual GDP growth, 5% - 6% unemployment rate, 3.75% RBA interest rate, $60,000 average income, mining keep earning big bucks by selling dirty dug out, banking profit and dividend increased not only every year, but every quarter. This is startling performance in all the developed countries! Following are the personal insulting and attack on MIKE SHEDLOCK. You can skip if you don't like. Don't know too much about him, but I guess he must have a spoiled childhood. No idea about food restriction and water shortage. Never did any kind tough work or had a tough time in his whole life. I reckon he should go back to school and re-learn his knowledge. Get some common sense about economy. Learn why a country in recession but there is no people dead on the street because of starving, no one jumps out of window due to bankruptcy? In a democracy country he has the freedom to whinge. But other people also has the right to ask him kindly sod off. — "and belief in policy makers is too high" - There I have to disagree.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCouldn't find HTC One X vs. Samsung Galaxy III side to side comparison. But according to report from TheAge: Both devices offer a quad-core processor, a 720p display, NFC, and the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, however the Galaxy S III edges ahead in a few ways by virtue of its expandable memory, replaceable battery, and various user-friendly software enhancements. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/samsung-reignites-smartphone-wars-with-galaxy-s-iii-20120504-1y2ri.html Quite like it! — Samsung announced Samsung Galaxy III at 4am Melbourne time today. Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-is-official/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-vs-iphone-4s-htc-one-x-lumia-900/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-software-hands-on/ Very very tempting!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Yep, already across this news. Samsung is No.1 smartphone manufacturer now topped Nokia. How hard for business stay in lead. — Samsung announced Samsung Galaxy III at 4am Melbourne time today. Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-is-official/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-vs-iphone-4s-htc-one-x-lumia-900/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/03/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-software-hands-on/ Very very tempting!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHopefully not! Almost every country property market has an unique detail that sets it apart from any other markets else. — What House Price Crashes Really Look Like From their peaks in mid-1991 and mid-2006, the Japanese and US housing markets have tumbled. From Australia's peak in mid-2010 we could be on a similar track. Shout out for Go.Pies
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSo both you guys are EJB 3 and JBoss fans, and buy Bill Burke's JEE over Spring, Spring is going to die brouhaha? — Let the controversy ensue.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe only game I ever played till the Game End.
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Commented on post by Martin PauloI will find a riding route even it takes 10 more minutes just off the main road and without cars. — The Vic Government has, as part of it's new budget, slashed spending on cycle infrastructure. Another broken promise. This one is bitterly disappointing, as the returns for the peanuts they were spending where huge, IMHO. One bicycle uses up far less space and resources than one car. I am really starting to hope that this lot are one term wonders :(
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Commented on post by Martin PauloAfter having worked and lived in Melbourne for 10 years on bike and public transportation, I got my driving licence and bought my first ever car about 18 months ago. I still reckon Melbourne is such a public transportation and bike friendly city. The great thing riding in Melbourne is that you can on your bike four seasons, all year. Melbourne doesn't have extreme cold weather like cities in Canada or China. Though I'm living in a suburb now surrounding by the car-crazy mad-dog neighbours, I still take 25 mins ride from my place to train station, then take train / tram to office during workday. One thing I don't like is like a rainy day today, a creek on the bike route is overflowed, so I have to drive. I can swim across the creek if colleagues don't mind I come in office wearing budgie smuggler like Tony Abbott. Already have four bikes just for me at home, I choose which bike to ride depends on the weather and how good I feel. Bicycle is the greatest invention created by human being let you reach the furthest distance just on the single pedal power. There is no reward than riding your bike, doing some exercise, with fresh air and making you feel great. — The Vic Government has, as part of it's new budget, slashed spending on cycle infrastructure. Another broken promise. This one is bitterly disappointing, as the returns for the peanuts they were spending where huge, IMHO. One bicycle uses up far less space and resources than one car. I am really starting to hope that this lot are one term wonders :(
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Commented on post by Martin PauloAu contraire, I'm a staunch supporter of Baillieu government state budget 2012. Close more schools (TAFE) and build more jails. Otherwise, where do you allocate net gains population in Victoria? Slash bike infrastructure investment to zero, encourage people to use more cars, burn more petrol, this will boost car sale, benefit rundown local car manufacturers, increase GST and index tax revenue on petrol. All these will help the state economy. I believe Baillieu is a high calibre and fantastic Liberal Party leader. If I could, I will cast 10,000 votes for him in next election with my feet. — The Vic Government has, as part of it's new budget, slashed spending on cycle infrastructure. Another broken promise. This one is bitterly disappointing, as the returns for the peanuts they were spending where huge, IMHO. One bicycle uses up far less space and resources than one car. I am really starting to hope that this lot are one term wonders :(
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDon't forget other two great contributions Americans made to human civilisation and world heritage - McDonald and Hotdog. — Quote of the day - Americans could be more economically productive if they spent less time on social media, Facebook, spending less time on TV, American Idol, drinking less beer, Budweiser, reading less trashy novels, Stephen King's, and play less a hundred other activities that American enjoy and value, NFL.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakDwelling value down 7% in Melbourne on year on year change according to RP Data: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/05/rp-data-home-prices-down-sharply-in-april/ Ouch! — shared in solicitation of a comment by resident expert +Terrence Miao ;))
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry, I have to clarify this post mainly focuses on JSF 2.x and use JSF only in presentation layer. No JSF's managed bean in business layer which I reckon make JSF heavier and problem-prone. I still prefer Spring as the lightweight middleware solution, which can be easily integrated with JSF view layer. JSF has a clear separation of web work - HTML, JS, AJAX, JSF facelets ... <h:form> <h:outputScript name="jsf.js" library="javax.faces" target="head"/> <h:panelGrid columns=”1”> <h:inputText id="myinput" value="#{userBean.name}"> <f:ajax event=”keyup” render=”outtext”/> </h:inputText> <h:outputText id="outtext" value="#{userBean.name}"!/> </panelGrid> </h:form> Above code snippets has a clean responsibility claim who should do what. This is what clean code about I reckon. What if they are written in JS, would you still like to read them? Mind you, one former colleague told me his experience when he developed with SmartGWT. He said the time when you look insider the JS codes GWT generated, try to hack codes to make some features you want or fix something, that's time your codes start to be broken. Heavily dependent on the JS GWT generated, trying to solve the matrix of complexity in web world, at this stage I reckon like a mission impossible. Google, let me know which Google apps use GWT. No need to mention the dead projects like Google Wave ... :-P +Dean Budd Please give peace a chance. Have a look of the latest JSF 2.x. Give a try and play with it then let me know your opinion. :-) — Sins of GWT a.k.a. Merits of JSF • simplest thing to be done requires 4-5 java classes with complex relationships • Swing style programming model, yuk! • coding everything in JAVA, including HTML, will make it almost impossible for web designers to contribute effectively. HTML prototypes to application will be a huge rework. • there is no clear separation between work of web developer, server side Java developer and presentation designer. UI work fully concentrated in hands of Java developer, not good idea; UI Java developer should also be aware of server side affairs very well, not a good idea too! • Jave developer can easily bleed business logic in the UI layer code. It will soon become a convoluted mix of UI and backend. This is the only reason why web applications become non-maintainable • Javascript as the underlying engine has it's own disadvantages; heavy dependence on Javascript, with all disadvantages of this insecure, memory leaks in browsers and problem making technology • not friendly for SEO • compilation time is very long • requires your custom effort to integrate ORM or data layer • last but not least, Google doen't use it JSF is far better in this regard • Freedom: component based development; can get components from 3rd party • Standard: the industry standard is called JEE • it keeps markup language intact for building UI; Facelets in JSF 2.x will make things ever better • integrated independently with business layer - Spring, EJB, BPEL. It greatly externalizes lot of backend logic Cons of JSF • It stores lot of stateful data on client or server thus have a large memory footprint • It doesn't have a good validation engine • creating new widgets is bit complex for new developers • since it's a specification and many vendors provide different implementation and plugins for it, you have to spend time creating a good package for yourself
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakDo people in huge debt think it will not their but government problem after they die, so they can enjoy everyday life in debt? Why government don't bankrupt these people, but keep feeding them, giving them pension, allowing them drive and letting them vote? — shared in solicitation of a comment by resident expert +Terrence Miao ;))
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYes, it's MoMoMelb. Sorry have to mention the name :-) — Wake Up A black bus with "Wake Up" written on the side pulled up and out poured a group of black-clad protesters with signs which read, "Wake Up." The protesters proceeded to stand in front of the Apple store in Sydney CBD and shout "wake up!" Samsung is believed to be the mastermind and "dirty hands" behind the campaign – a local activation by tongue for the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phone. Pump up your mouth water before you can see the real product. Brilliant! Read more: http://mumbrella.com.au/samsung-galaxy-launch-believed-to-be-behind-wake-up-teaser-campaign-87691
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI reckon RIM has lost plot what it is going to do to survive. Mind you, I was approached by a lady in a mobile seminar when she noticed I played with my Samsung Galaxy tablet. She asked me whether I should buy a latest Blackberry playbook and develop some apps on it. I replied her I was not a fan of Blackberry at all, and its tiny size, full-keys keyboard. She looked quite disappointed. Later I knew she's the representative from RIM, the only sponsor for seminar and the free beer. Oops ... — Wake Up A black bus with "Wake Up" written on the side pulled up and out poured a group of black-clad protesters with signs which read, "Wake Up." The protesters proceeded to stand in front of the Apple store in Sydney CBD and shout "wake up!" Samsung is believed to be the mastermind and "dirty hands" behind the campaign – a local activation by tongue for the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phone. Pump up your mouth water before you can see the real product. Brilliant! Read more: http://mumbrella.com.au/samsung-galaxy-launch-believed-to-be-behind-wake-up-teaser-campaign-87691
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAs I come across this news today I feel quite annoyed. RIM should lay down uninterruptedly on the dead bed now, for God sake >:-< — Wake Up A black bus with "Wake Up" written on the side pulled up and out poured a group of black-clad protesters with signs which read, "Wake Up." The protesters proceeded to stand in front of the Apple store in Sydney CBD and shout "wake up!" Samsung is believed to be the mastermind and "dirty hands" behind the campaign – a local activation by tongue for the global launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phone. Pump up your mouth water before you can see the real product. Brilliant! Read more: http://mumbrella.com.au/samsung-galaxy-launch-believed-to-be-behind-wake-up-teaser-campaign-87691
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Martin Paulo I don't have such confidence. I couldn't see any significant capital growth in properties in next five years or even more, if properties are not going to crash. Hopefully, Australia can dig out more dirty, iron ore, coal, and sell them big bucks to China. This will make any kind of landing soft and less painful. — shared in solicitation of a comment by resident expert +Terrence Miao ;))
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak Thanks for this post Oleg. I'm not expert on property, just like to see what you have paid and what you could get back. I do have an investment property, I did all renovation, and I'm one of that "losers" landlords. There is no fun at all each month when you pay extra money to cover the interest rate shortage, and you hate when you pay bloody endless council rate, water bill for parks, body corp fee ... Investors should take all the risks and bonus themselves. But in Australia, I can't believe government so babysitting investors. Negative gearing is only the cheap lolly pollies to buy the cheap votes. Properties are becoming the time bomb now, especially when more property investors reach their retirement and rush to sell their investment. The only "banana" could save Australia is mining boom I reckon. I hope this boom can last another 20 years. — shared in solicitation of a comment by resident expert +Terrence Miao ;))
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIntegrity and honesty should be the uncompromised calibre of the journalists. Unfortunately, money madness and short term popularity make some of today's journalists' principles no better than the walking girls in infamous St Kilda's Grey St. According to Roy Morgan's survey, the trustworthy of Newspaper Journalists is just below Federal MPs at 11%. I reckon that's the people's response to Herald "Horny" Sun. :-) Check the full ratings for Ethics and Honesty of professionals: http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2011/4655/ (from 1979 to 2011) However, there are still a lot good journalists you can fully trust under the market economy and capitalism in action. So I still get mainstream news from Newspaper. — "Dentist pulled out ALL boyfriend's teeth after he dumped her, and new girlfriend leaves him because of his empty mouth." This is the typical headline of you-can't-be-serious, right-wing raciness British tabloid Daily Mail. IN JANUARY the New York Times lost its top spot in comScore’s ranking of the world’s biggest newspaper websites to Britain’s Daily Mail. New York Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, and global news outlets: BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, as well as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and indeed The Economist are in the battle to be biggest reflects a growing phenomenon: national news publications going global.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood point David. It's greedy and ruthless borrowing and lending caused GFC. Blaming on one math formula makes a laughable excuse. It's cheap trick I reckon that journalist used to attract more eyeballs. But it's interesting to know the history of Black-Scholes formula drives behind option investment. — It's not every day that someone writes down an equation that ends up changing the world. But it does happen sometimes, and the world doesn't always change for the better. It has been argued that one formula known as Black-Scholes, along with its descendants, helped to blow up the financial world. "By 2007 the trade in derivatives worldwide was one quadrillion (thousand million million) US dollars - this is 10 times the total production of goods on the planet over its entire history." After Black-Scholes it was the computer that said yes, or no. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Finally, you confess your heinous sin of heresy, reject Mac in the first place ungodly ... Really admire your courage heaps ... hahaha! — +Dean Budd Counter punch to Deano's doggy style insulting on Mac :-D
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd +Martin Paulo Deano, your build standard is far out of Marty's league. Game over. <hahahaha /> — +Dean Budd Counter punch to Deano's doggy style insulting on Mac :-D
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Commented on post by Casper CasperReverting is for losers. Rollback is for perverts. Like! — http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWhen Dependency injection introduced in Spring makes a clear separation of code and configuration, into two places, code and XML. Annotation, on the contrary, brings configuration together with the code. Spring 3.0 seems leaning more from XML configuration to Annotation configuration. The rule of thumb I reckon is to mix using them: For configuration that keep changing, e.g., environment depended setting, put into XML; configuration you only write once and never want to see it again, use Annotation. A good example is Annotation in unit test. For the "auto black magic" scenario, up to you either refactor code with Annotation, make them more intuitive. Or if it's hard, put the configuration into XML and into one place. — Concise Learning - Why less is more? Technology never stop evolving during tough time in GFC and even in stock market flash crash in 2010. Spring in Action, as always good quality as other "in Action" series books from Manning, is in its 3rd generation now. It's not only a revised book, but also recharging your Spring knowledge. Based on the latest Spring 3.0 technology, Spring in Action adds some fresh contents built only in release 3 that I'm looking for: • Native support RESTful service • New Spring Expression Language (SpEL) • New annotations to reduce configuration and poison XML files • Last but not least, seamlessly integrated with Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and Spring Security All these original and additional Spring contents in a just over 400 pages book is quite amazing. This is another confirmation and confidence Spring team has given that you can build an Enterprise level application in ultra lightweight Spring fashion. Happy reading!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoObject-oriented software is all about modularity. When you design applications, you carefully consider the units of functionality that should be captured within a single component and the proper boundaries between collaborating components. These decisions lead to contracts in the form of well-defined interfaces that dictate the input and output for a given module. When one component depends on another, it should make assumptions only about such an interface rather than about a particular implementation. This promotes the encapsulation of implementation details so that those details can change within the bounds of the interface definition without impacting other code. — The basic concept of Spring? The basic concept of Spring is the Inversion of Control pattern (dependency injection). In Spring, programmers don’t need to create user objects but they need to describe how they should be created (in applicationContext.xml or using annotations). In Spring, programmers don't need directly connect components and services together in code but they need to describe which services are needed by which components in a configuration file or using annotations. The Spring container is responsible for all this. Spring creates all the objects, connects them together by setting the necessary properties, and determines when methods will be invoked.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe main idea behind IoC and the Spring Framework itself is that code should be as simple as possible while still supporting all of the complex requirements of enterprise applications. In other words, those complexities can’t be wholly ignored but ideally shouldn't have a negative impact on developer productivity or software quality. To accomplish that goal, the responsibility of controlling those complexities should be inverted from the application code to a framework. The bottom line is that enterprise development isn't easy, but it can be much easier when a framework handles much of the grunt work. — The basic concept of Spring? The basic concept of Spring is the Inversion of Control pattern (dependency injection). In Spring, programmers don’t need to create user objects but they need to describe how they should be created (in applicationContext.xml or using annotations). In Spring, programmers don't need directly connect components and services together in code but they need to describe which services are needed by which components in a configuration file or using annotations. The Spring container is responsible for all this. Spring creates all the objects, connects them together by setting the necessary properties, and determines when methods will be invoked.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEvery time you switch to a new Google service is like, selling part to your soul to Google. The more you give yourself to Google, the more powerful Google becomes. Till one day, all of your base are belong to Google ... — Google Disk, GDrive, finally Google Drive is going to live in a few hours maybe. Google is offering cloud-based storage for photos and other online content, and is likely to offer 5GB (gigabytes) of free storage with more available for a monthly fee. This makes sense. Cloud computing today is about build application in Google App Engine, store content in Amazon storage and use Facebook to do authentication. With free storage offered by Google Drive, developer can concentrate on Google APIs for development. If Google Plus could overcome Facebook one day, Google will take control of Cloud Computing Universe. With more and more people put their personal music, videos, photos into cloud, a potential "digital inheritance" issue could be left behind after people died. So I reckon Google should offer the first ever Google Funeral, offering online legal, memorial, care and comfort services, along side with Google Drive's release.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoContent Warning: Everything you upload to Google Drive are automatically owned by Google! — Google Disk, GDrive, finally Google Drive is going to live in a few hours maybe. Google is offering cloud-based storage for photos and other online content, and is likely to offer 5GB (gigabytes) of free storage with more available for a monthly fee. This makes sense. Cloud computing today is about build application in Google App Engine, store content in Amazon storage and use Facebook to do authentication. With free storage offered by Google Drive, developer can concentrate on Google APIs for development. If Google Plus could overcome Facebook one day, Google will take control of Cloud Computing Universe. With more and more people put their personal music, videos, photos into cloud, a potential "digital inheritance" issue could be left behind after people died. So I reckon Google should offer the first ever Google Funeral, offering online legal, memorial, care and comfort services, along side with Google Drive's release.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddContent Warning: Everything you upload to Google Drive are owned by Google! — Google's DropBox killer...
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniHow about spend your weekend at Geelong, enjoy the wet season and back to Melbourne in early morning on Monday? The V-Line train surely run. — I have been planning to catch the train to Geelong this Friday night, for a return trip on Saturday night. However the trains aren't running this weekend! The replacement buses will double the journey time from 1hr to 2hrs #gripe Further adding to the insult is that Myki is not valid for the full journey, so I can't use my Myki to travel between Melbourne & Geelong. I'd need to buy a ticket for the full journey, not the portion that my Z1+2 pass doesn't cover! What a ridiculous state of affairs that Myki is valid in the metro areas of both Melbourne and Geelong but not for journeys between the two cities! #gripe I give up. I'm going to drive there & back. #gripe
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Commented on post by Casper CasperNot big of "voilent killing" computer games.But rumours that Diablo 3 is going to release iOS and Android version, This will be the biggest motivation to let me give a try ;-) — Played some diablo 3 last night. I'm pretty happy with it overall. My only gripe is that they've simplified the skill tree too much.
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak In your case, I guess Hotel should cover full compensation, not by government or any government agency. It's ironic that the hotel in that woman's case didn't mentioned what afterward at all. Hard to believe a business can have such least legal obligation.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakWell, awarded workers compensation on not work related activities even it's during the business trip, out pocket of the taxpayers money. Sorry for my sarcasm, under the same kind ruling, Federal MP Craig Thomson should be given a medal for his altruistic overtime effort for supporting and assisting Australian Small Business. In his case, an escort agency.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://www.tgeltaayehxnx.com/ Samsung Mobile put out a tweet today saying: “Destination: tgeltaayehxnx”. Although that may only be gibberish to you, it soon became clear that “tgeltaayehxnx” is an anagram for “The Next Galaxy”. — How many more phones do they need :p
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakI love you Australia too. Haha!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThere is rumour S-Cloud service offered by Samsung, 5GB space, bundled with next Galaxy phone. Competing iCloud? — How many more phones do they need :p
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis is great wisdom! I was laughing out when one "Lead Developer" a.k.a "Agile/Scrum Master" or whatever told the whole team no less than 90% test coverage anywhere in application before, no matter whether there is unit test or not, whether too many overcooked unit test just to make 100% mark. Can't be scared and intimated by some stupid people just because they have a pair of enormous asses!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMitt Romney would change his standing soon after his first day entering in White House. There is not much creditability to American politicians in president election year.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakGreat post Oleg! Love these info graphics. Regarding to U.S.'s $15527B debt, I believe there is no way American could pay off them. The only way to "reduce" debt is to has a "moderate" inflation and keep U.S. Dollars depreciation. All the money you have today, if you don't invest, in a certain period of time, will become worthless. The richest person of all time John D. Rockefeller, if he keeps his money under mattress, he wouldn't make this top 20 list. Check - http://www.businessinsider.com/richest-people-of-all-time-2011-1 — I've never posted any "infographics" before... so here' one: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I always trust Deano's sound judgement even he only feels about it. :-P — Why Git over Mercurial? To Dear +Kieran Simpson • Efficiency: each git command is like a Swiss Army knife, with more built-in tools in one piece of device; Mercurial is like a well-equipped kitchen — it has a lot of tools that each do one simple, well-defined thing, and do it well. Do you want learn how to use only one thing, Swiss Army knife or everything in the kitchen? • Speed: Git seems super faster to a lot impatient people. • Complexity: There is a batch of good reasons why Git looks too complicated to someone, and there is a good book ProGit - http://progit.org/book/ demystifying all these complexity in a simple way. Last but never the least, GitHub is so popular and dominant. It's never wrong to put your money on big elephant. History keeps repeating itself - "No One Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoStackOverflow has a good comparison Git vs. Mercurial - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial-compare-and-contrast — Why Git over Mercurial? To Dear +Kieran Simpson • Efficiency: each git command is like a Swiss Army knife, with more built-in tools in one piece of device; Mercurial is like a well-equipped kitchen — it has a lot of tools that each do one simple, well-defined thing, and do it well. Do you want learn how to use only one thing, Swiss Army knife or everything in the kitchen? • Speed: Git seems super faster to a lot impatient people. • Complexity: There is a batch of good reasons why Git looks too complicated to someone, and there is a good book ProGit - http://progit.org/book/ demystifying all these complexity in a simple way. Last but never the least, GitHub is so popular and dominant. It's never wrong to put your money on big elephant. History keeps repeating itself - "No One Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more: http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/11-07-15-stop_wasting_money_on_weblogic_websphere_and_jboss_application_servers — Forget Google App Engine, it's so 1990's. The future cloud computing is Heroku. Use Spring, Spring MVC, and Hibernate to create a simple web application that runs on Tomcat web container and deploy to Heroku to have linear scalability. The Java space is now ripe for disruptive innovation by cloud application platforms. The next generation Java applications are running on container-less, elastic application platform (EAP).
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne feature like Logback is you can setup socket appender, for example appending to LogViewer like lilith runs on another host in logback.xml: <appender name="lilith" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SocketAppender"> <RemoteHost>your-own-place-in-the-rainbow</RemoteHost> <Port>4560</Port> <ReconnectionDelay>170</ReconnectionDelay> <IncludeCallerData>true</IncludeCallerData> </appender> Read more: http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/osgi-logging-part-8-viewing-log-events-lilith/ — logback There are a lot reasons I prefer logback over log4j. Look the log output when you fondle Hibernate. Exactly what I'm looking for if something screwed in ORM: o.h.transaction.JDBCTransaction - commit o.h.e.d.AbstractFlushingEventListener - processing flush-time cascades o.h.e.d.AbstractFlushingEventListener - dirty checking collections o.h.e.d.AbstractFlushingEventListener - Flushed: 1 insertions, 0 updates, 0 deletions to 1 objects o.h.e.d.AbstractFlushingEventListener - Flushed: 0 (re)creations, 0 updates, 0 removals to 0 collections org.hibernate.pretty.Printer - listing entities: org.hibernate.pretty.Printer - org.paradise.user.DBUser{username=Hibernate101, createdBy=system, userId=100, createdDate=Sat Apr 23 14:34:08 SGT 2011} org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher - about to open PreparedStatement (open PreparedStatements: 0, globally: 0) org.hibernate.SQL - insert into paradise.DBUSER (CREATED_BY, CREATED_DATE, USERNAME, USER_ID) values (?, ?, ?, ?) o.h.type.descriptor.sql.BasicBinder - binding parameter [1] as [VARCHAR] - system o.h.type.descriptor.sql.BasicBinder - binding parameter [2] as [DATE] - Sat Apr 23 14:34:08 SGT 2011 o.h.type.descriptor.sql.BasicBinder - binding parameter [3] as [VARCHAR] - Hibernate101 o.h.type.descriptor.sql.BasicBinder - binding parameter [4] as [INTEGER] - 100
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Commented on post by Bryan Murphy"Perception of reality did not properly reflect reality." Great excuse! I will argue and ask for waiver my ticket next time in court :-P — http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/physicist-uses-maths-to-avoid-traffic-penalty.ars
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Commented on post by Casper CasperBetter to learn some key combination on Mac as well, speed up your coding. For example, what the keys to take a screenshot in a range? Hint: Built-in function in Mac OS X. But don't try to remember all of them :-) — 3 weeks after going from Java -> .Net : I now have to learn mac and ios development :S
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Commented on post by Casper CasperDo your company transfer from Fusion verdor to mobile development vendor? I have a great tip to learn Mac OS X! Open the Terminal window, everything is you are familiar in Unix :-) — 3 weeks after going from Java -> .Net : I now have to learn mac and ios development :S
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Martin Paulo Big thumb up on Meteor. Very creative and deep thinking! In 2012, the "dumb terminal" style of application is long gone, and instead we have a sea of smart clients: the JavaScript applications that run in our web browsers, and the native applications that run on our phones or tablets. They talk to an ever-growing array of scalable, distributed cloud services, such as Facebook Connect (authentication), Google Maps (location awareness), Amazon S3 (storage), and whatever custom services a particular app may need to run in the cloud due to security or persistence considerations. Meteor is a new application platform for this new era. It is built around Smart Packages: little bundles of code that can run on a client, inside a cloud service, or both, and that can manage their lifetime inside the modern distributed environment. Wow! — Is there a future for MVC architecture? And is it near the end of life of Struts? During last few days I bumped from gardening hobby into JSF (JavaServer Faces), actually it's JSF 2. Attracting to my attention is not because of JSF is Oracle backed, propagandaed and carpet bombed, but also because JSF becomes everyone's darling, again! Remember I had a discussion with people's favourite Italian boy Dino Baetano about JSF, while we concluded that poor performance in the early implementation of JSF (JSF 1) kill a lot enthusiastic Java developers. This is almost announce a death penalty to JSF. Time fly till I come across this article wrote in 2005 on based on JSF 1, giving architectural overview of JSF, overturn the "bias and discrimination" I had to JSF before. Interesting enough, there is comparison of MVC 2 architecture, represented by Struts vs. event driven, component development, represented by JSF. Richard Hightower, author of this article, claims against Struts is that it can feel more procedural than object-oriented, and doesn't offer a component model from the core package. Struts makes the mistake of separating behaviour and state, which leaves many Java developers feeling like they're programming COBOL! This is a serious allegation. MVC 1 architecture was a small revolution in OO world when it came out of the corner. But it never helps reducing the tedious work for developers. Not ever getting better, MVC 2 model is still a heavy approach. So it's not strange that Ruby on Rails and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) come out as alternative solutions for web applications. Back to JSF 2, which has harvested all the evolutionary fruits from JEE 6, Spring, Ruby, is getting up to another level. For example: • Fine-grained event driven development and events are easily tied to server-side code • Component based development. Reusable components enforce Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle • Annotation and IoC support simplifies codes and makes them less • Enforces Convention over Configuration (CoC) principle • Controller classes aren't tied to JSF at all, making them easier to test • The statefulness of the components is provided through the JSF framework. On the contrary, maybe it's backdrop for poor response from application. Oh man, is it time we shall give another look of JSF?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonExynos 4412 Quad-Core processor at 1.5Ghz, 4.65" screen, 720p resolution, 8mm thick, 12M pixels rear camera, maybe with wireless charging, run Android 4.0 ... I still can wait till Galaxy S IV. — How many more phones do they need :p
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHTML5 is the most dramatic step in the evolution of web standards. The Browser is now the ultimate Rich Client. The fat "boy" client is back. — Is there a future for MVC architecture? And is it near the end of life of Struts? During last few days I bumped from gardening hobby into JSF (JavaServer Faces), actually it's JSF 2. Attracting to my attention is not because of JSF is Oracle backed, propagandaed and carpet bombed, but also because JSF becomes everyone's darling, again! Remember I had a discussion with people's favourite Italian boy Dino Baetano about JSF, while we concluded that poor performance in the early implementation of JSF (JSF 1) kill a lot enthusiastic Java developers. This is almost announce a death penalty to JSF. Time fly till I come across this article wrote in 2005 on based on JSF 1, giving architectural overview of JSF, overturn the "bias and discrimination" I had to JSF before. Interesting enough, there is comparison of MVC 2 architecture, represented by Struts vs. event driven, component development, represented by JSF. Richard Hightower, author of this article, claims against Struts is that it can feel more procedural than object-oriented, and doesn't offer a component model from the core package. Struts makes the mistake of separating behaviour and state, which leaves many Java developers feeling like they're programming COBOL! This is a serious allegation. MVC 1 architecture was a small revolution in OO world when it came out of the corner. But it never helps reducing the tedious work for developers. Not ever getting better, MVC 2 model is still a heavy approach. So it's not strange that Ruby on Rails and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) come out as alternative solutions for web applications. Back to JSF 2, which has harvested all the evolutionary fruits from JEE 6, Spring, Ruby, is getting up to another level. For example: • Fine-grained event driven development and events are easily tied to server-side code • Component based development. Reusable components enforce Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle • Annotation and IoC support simplifies codes and makes them less • Enforces Convention over Configuration (CoC) principle • Controller classes aren't tied to JSF at all, making them easier to test • The statefulness of the components is provided through the JSF framework. On the contrary, maybe it's backdrop for poor response from application. Oh man, is it time we shall give another look of JSF?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Remind me need to find time to read Joshua Bolch's classic Effective Java, 2nd edition, having a profound view inside Java. I read the 1st edition years ago. Time to revise and revamp the knowledge. — Confucius said: "One is worthy of being or becoming a teacher if one is able to derive new understanding while revising what he has learned." (子曰:“温故而知新,可以为师矣。”) Having read SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5, reading SCJP for Java 6 still feel fresh and crunchy. Thousand things need to remember in a computer language like Java touchen you up throughout 890 pages in this book.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson"I don't always test my code. But when I do I do it in production." Gold! <hahaha /> — When commits go viral http://t.co/rHwsku3h next on #sicksadworld -- Kieran Simpson (@kierans777)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMind you, if you have experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR), some design concept in JSF you can find all the trace of RoR. For example, the principle of Convention over Configuration(CoC), one of the core philosophy and design pattern in Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is intended to emphasise Convention over Configuration (CoC), and the rapid development principle of Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY). "Convention over Configuration" means a developer only needs to specify unconventional aspects of the application. For example, if there is a class Sale in the model, the corresponding table in the database is called Sale by default. It is only if one deviates from this convention, such as calling the table "products sold", that the developer needs to write code regarding these names. Generally, Ruby on Rails conventions lead to less code and less repetition. "Don't repeat yourself" means that information is located in a single, unambiguous place. For example, using the ActiveRecord module of Rails, the developer does not need to specify database column names in class definitions. Instead, Ruby on Rails can retrieve this information from the database based on the class name. JSF, on the other hand, borrowed or pitched all these ideas from RoR generously. If you understand the common sense and principle of computer science, all the new languages, framework, solutions are all come or derive from the same one root ... — A latest podcast mentions about JSF. JavaServer Faces (JSF), the great surviver, appears the be late winner of Oracle acquisition of Sun. Oracle continues to prompt JSF technology, as the front end solution for web applications. The new 2.2 specification is ready for HTML5 use more Javascript. Oracle just has the milestone release for JSF. JSF looks like the crown jewels Oracle looking for from Sun. Oracle pushes JSF hard. If you choose Oracle, there is no way to escape from JSF. What's your opinion on JSF? Especially JSF 2.x which is completely revamp of previous JSF 1.x. Facelets instead of JavaServer Pages (JSP) as the display technology. Your comments are welcome.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakHalf of the screen on the right side are blank and empty. Yark! — WTF is this crap? WHERE'S THE NORMAL GOOGLE+??!! is this going to be the new UI now??... :(
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGreat post Martin! Amazed how Instagram can design and implement their owned front-end and middleware solution - full under control! BTW, there are around 30 millions Instagram users, that is about US$ 33.33 per loyal customer Facebook paid for. That is bargain! :-P The fact is Mark Zuckerberg spent $1bn on Instagram, a small web start-up just under two years old, with 13 full-time staff who work on a single smartphone app ... Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17666032
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Oracle is the biggest backer of JSF even before acquired Sun. JSF is a technology keeps evolving. Having Java and JSF under belt, Oracle can do a lot things and decide the future of them. It's important don't put your money on a horse can't win. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle is safe trifecta bet if they both in the draw of "Melbourne Cup". — A latest podcast mentions about JSF. JavaServer Faces (JSF), the great surviver, appears the be late winner of Oracle acquisition of Sun. Oracle continues to prompt JSF technology, as the front end solution for web applications. The new 2.2 specification is ready for HTML5 use more Javascript. Oracle just has the milestone release for JSF. JSF looks like the crown jewels Oracle looking for from Sun. Oracle pushes JSF hard. If you choose Oracle, there is no way to escape from JSF. What's your opinion on JSF? Especially JSF 2.x which is completely revamp of previous JSF 1.x. Facelets instead of JavaServer Pages (JSP) as the display technology. Your comments are welcome.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI reckon Fackbook bought Instagram customers in a lot for $1b. Instagram app itself is FREE. Who is next? Pinterest?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Bryan Murphy One suggested while you study SCJP, use Microsoft IDE application instead of familiar tools like Eclipse or Netbean. This IDE app is installed by default in Windows - MS Notepad <The end /> — Confucius said: "One is worthy of being or becoming a teacher if one is able to derive new understanding while revising what he has learned." (子曰:“温故而知新,可以为师矣。”) Having read SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5, reading SCJP for Java 6 still feel fresh and crunchy. Thousand things need to remember in a computer language like Java touchen you up throughout 890 pages in this book.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSpeechless! — THE UK’s first helpline has been opened for people who have had close encounters with ALIENS. The phone service offers counselling for those who believe they have been contacted or even abducted by ETs.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTwitter is another example of "stupid thing". People who are addictive to Twitter are people can't spell correctly, can't communicate efficiently, can't socialise consciously. — Tetris and its offspring (Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Fruit Ninja, etc.) have colonized our pockets and our brains and shifted the entire economic model of the video-game industry. Today we are living, for better and worse, in a world of stupid games.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI was tumbled during a job interview asking if I know about CountDownLatch class, so I went through Java Concurrency tutorials, books looking for answers afterward. Basically, from my understanding, if you want to get concurrency working correctly in Java, you have to depend on java.util.concurrent package. Admittedly it's powerful, but looking the boilerplate codes and plumbing work have to carry on clumsily, just don't feel things are right. So I'd like to discuss whether there is a better solution in Java. Scala, if you have the choice, is certainly a better choice replacing Java especially in backend in concurrency. Like ecstasy for Java developers, Scala is moving developers' focus away from the meat of the problem, and leaving low-level details of concurrent programming to a framework to solve. — Went through Core Java Concurrency last few days. Still feel the headache of fighting concepts like, Collections vs. Concurrent Collections, Deadlock vs. Livelock, Starvation vs. Fairness, Runnable vs. Callable, ExecutorService vs. CompletionService. More added-on those brain drills like coordination classes CyclicBarrier, CountDownLatch, Exchanger ... Definitely Java Concurrency gets its muscle and power. Don't know how many you guys have real experience and examples with Java Concurrency besides GLIDe project. What your comments?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper Alternative solution, interesting! — Went through Core Java Concurrency last few days. Still feel the headache of fighting concepts like, Collections vs. Concurrent Collections, Deadlock vs. Livelock, Starvation vs. Fairness, Runnable vs. Callable, ExecutorService vs. CompletionService. More added-on those brain drills like coordination classes CyclicBarrier, CountDownLatch, Exchanger ... Definitely Java Concurrency gets its muscle and power. Don't know how many you guys have real experience and examples with Java Concurrency besides GLIDe project. What your comments?
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson How did you find out it's busted? Did the scanner tell you it's malfunctioned and try on another gate? — Ah the results of incompetence http://t.co/Bn8PMu1o #fb -- Kieran Simpson (@kierans777)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIf Mr. Null, a highly intelligent, well educated gentleman still has trouble to use Myki in his daily routine, it's clean that the system is not good at all. The case is closed. — Ah the results of incompetence http://t.co/Bn8PMu1o #fb -- Kieran Simpson (@kierans777)
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson"correct myki behaviour"!? What a lousy excuse for a shamble system! — Ah the results of incompetence http://t.co/Bn8PMu1o #fb -- Kieran Simpson (@kierans777)
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Commented on post by Dean BuddAwesome! Don't wanna to find out how the magic work, but want to know how to program the application on New iPad in the show. How to sync application and magician's hands?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonStocks can do well even during wild bouts of money printing (hyperinflation). This is an interesting point as Prof. Jeremy Siegel explains in the book Stocks for the Long Run: In the event of hyperinflation, stocks will be, by far, the best performing financial assets. Over the past several decades, the currencies of Brazil and Argentina have depreciated by more than a billion fold against the dollar, yet their stock markets have appreciated by an even greater extent.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWill journalism quality keep up after turn off newspaper printing factory? — The End of Newspaper? Welcome Newsdigit! Since start of year 2012, I have subscribed digital edition of TheAge and The Australian. Currently, I'm on two months trail of Herald "Horny" Sun, which I reckon it's a total rubbish, although it's thoroughly absorbing, not a bad substitution for toilet paper and, it's entertaining. I still like traditional newspaper, easily to read and digest, tons of information in a large size A0 paper. However, time is changing. More and more people looking for information online, accelerating the disappearing of the newspaper. The cost saving and environment friendly by sending digital pulse via electricity wire change everyone's life dramatically and forever. Is it good old time no more? Or someone needs to shout out: "Shut up whinging loser"?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGood reference J! I wish there is a diagram of Gold vs. S&P 500 that which includes S&P 500 dividends, and better if includes compound return part - invest dividends as the new investment. Anyway, it's a good debate. We need share more information and have more discussion how to beat the central bankers :-)
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+che nelson In Australia people think in opposite :-D
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe claim that Warren Buffett doesn't realize just how much erosion of currency value there is these days is misleading. Actually Buffett has told people about dollar depreciation overtime in 2010 - US has high deficit and dollar will be devalued overtime due to policies on Mar 1st, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjwSNQBmx7A Comparing gold's the sweetest run in last decade to Berkshire Hathaway, S&P 500 last 10 years is unfair. Why the author doesn't compare gold with since the start of Berkshire in 1960's and S&P 500 in 1957? This is gold historical chart since 1975 - http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au75-pres.gif I reckon it's longer enough to make a life span investment decision. Maybe gold is good 10 years short term investment hedge against inflation, but do you want to hold it for 30, 40 or 50 years? In reality check that actually how many "smart" people invested large amount gold in 2002 when gold price hit US$ 270 per ounce low?
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Commented on post by Dean Buddhttp://www.customs.gov.au/smartgate/default.asp This is Deano's 5 mins quickly pass the Customs solution - using SmartGate with the ePassport. — The new ePassport's are awesome!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGot my hi-tech ePassport at weekend. Smart ways to prevent from fraudulence, but $233 price tag just for renewing a new ordinary passport is too dear and ridiculous. $233 is a pensioner's whole week income. There is no one successful and the most profitable business in this country that can beat red-taped Australian Government! — The new ePassport's are awesome!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak FB is straight forward easy to use. G+ a bit geeky and sophisticated to quickly get the point I reckon. I reckon more ladies are FB and Pinterest than G+. — Just joined another upcoming, popular, femail friendly social network - Pinterest. Keeping abreast of the latest fashion, trend and technology, don't be a dull "dummy" person.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry "female friendly". Damn auto spell correct didn't pick up! — Just joined another upcoming, popular, femail friendly social network - Pinterest. Keeping abreast of the latest fashion, trend and technology, don't be a dull "dummy" person.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUnfortunately Oleg, no one can escape from this invisible hand of the market. — Real Estate for Ransom For as long as I care to remember, the Real Estate salesmans’s call to action has been, “It’s never a better time to buy”. But for the 27 percent of the first home buyer cohort who followed this advice the year before last, they now owe more than their homes are worth, a situation known as negative equity.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyTV with web camera should also equips with lens cap. Do you want to buy a camera lens without any cover? — Maybe George Orwell was only out by 30 years http://hdguru.com/is-your-new-hdtv-watching-you/7643/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGold has it investment value only when inflation has been more than interest rates on U.S. Treasuries. A better way to secure your future against inflation is to invest in what Buffett prefers – "productive assets." - Businesses that can hold pricing power and have brand loyalty, have the ability to raise prices right along with input costs. Simply put, businesses with steady profit margins in a long long run.
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak Relocating spiders? Do you believe spiders are like illegal migrants into Australia, if you refuse to enter and they have to take leave? :-) — definitely our Australian spiders are the world's most architecturally advanced ;))) (out of necessity, that is) (props +Irina Tcherednichenko )
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakHate these creepy crawlers walk around the house or dangle from the ceiling, just like Garfield. — definitely our Australian spiders are the world's most architecturally advanced ;))) (out of necessity, that is) (props +Irina Tcherednichenko )
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLook like Apple's products are the best feminine products ... — Does anyone know if Google+ Hangouts work on the iPad? Someone told me that Apple blocked it due to it threatening Face Time. I'm just about to buy one for the girlfriend, but this could be a deal-breaker.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAwesome! Have you replaced mechanic hd with SSD? Let your MBP fly? New MBP will not be equipped with CD, make it thinner and lighter. — As one colleague put it, now I can open 5 Firefox tabs instead of 4. HT: +Terrence Miao for the link to the shop.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBe aware of those high-yield "junky" corporate bonds!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI reckon to fix this problem need to allow employees work on different shifts. Not only 8am - 5pm, not only Mon - Fri. Banks should be opened on Sat and Sun. Business should permit to work on National day, Labour day, Easter, Xmas ... Church services should be moved away from weekend. Anyway, a city should run on 24 hours. It's not about against human right. It's about more functional and efficient! — If you actually use public transport in Melbourne this comes as no surprise: "Changes fail to fix train crush" http://t.co/Sj8XBW78 -- Martin_Paulo (@Martin_Paulo)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoJPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns staff on schadenfreude after ex-Goldman banker Greg Smith resignation. Schadenfreude! — How painful you realise that the place you have dedicated your career to is morally bankrupt, and not worthy of your time or energy. Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoLike Facebook's new feature Timeline. BTW, FB I reckon is good for business to have more exposure to public. — Why I left Google James Whittaker is a guy living in backward way. Quitting innovative Google and joined half alive and half dead Microsoft. His rants about Google+ sound interesting and make good point: I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.” Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+David Martin The privacy abuse concern make me only playing underwater in Facebook. — Why I left Google James Whittaker is a guy living in backward way. Quitting innovative Google and joined half alive and half dead Microsoft. His rants about Google+ sound interesting and make good point: I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.” Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell Greg Smith is from South Africa. Do you guys know each other in SA or in GS? :-) — How painful you realise that the place you have dedicated your career to is morally bankrupt, and not worthy of your time or energy. Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWell any negative stories and dramas from GS can become the news on the frontpage. — How painful you realise that the place you have dedicated your career to is morally bankrupt, and not worthy of your time or energy. Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson +1 on Memcached. In the performance tuning review in one of my previous projects, I suggested my team adding Memcached to cache directory searching result. Under the brutal management and "Ils a sauté a leurs pieds" - people jump to their feet work environment, this suggest was simply ignored. — I come across this blog when I read article about poking Spring for fun. This blog mentions about using Coherence as the L2 cache for Hibernate. This is very interesting, because I always believe performance issue is the biggest hinder for Hibernate in an Enterprise level JPA solution. Another related thing I need to mention is the project Mr. B and I are working on, an Oracle proprietary implementation. With Oracle DB, SOA, Weblogic J2EE Server, JPA, Coherence ... everything locked in Oracle. So every time when we confront with JPA bugs, Coherence performance issue, just like hitting a big wall that hardly to break in. But, we need Oracle. Not only because venders like to pay big bucks to Oracle and let them feel good, but also because "J2EE server is very good at BPEL and ESB stuff", as Mr. J pointed out. So I have been thinking that is it possible just run J2EE (Weblogic) for BPEL (high level business stuff), and let everything else (Java stuff) be managed by Spring (as it should be). Benefit from Spring's Inversion of Control especially Dependency Injection, Aspect-Oriented Programming, and other standard consistent Spring's components - Spring Web Servies, Batch, Security, Integration ..., lighter, out-of-container test framework, and powerful business products (24x7 support), so this article maybe points the direction how to let OS solutions work together with commercial proprietary applications. Read more: How do I integrate Coherence and Hibernate? - http://coherence.oracle.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16730
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Babar Asghar Sick people have the obsession with possession. — iPad 3? iPad HD? Or you should call it iPad S - iPad Slightly? No, it's The New iPad. Unfortunately, The New iPad can be anything but disappointing. It's definitely not a revolutionary release. The only biggest improvement I reckon is retina display. Other features like dual core A5X processor, 4G LTE network support are not good enough to let smart customers to reach their pocket deep. Well, let those die-hard, naive Apple fans chase their "dreams", a half baked bread without seasons on it. Apple is still can squeeze last drop of juice out of an orange dry.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+James Gemmell In the previous project, Coherence is used to load "NEW" state messages, then update messages state to "DISPATCHED", "PROCESSING", "PROCESSED", "FAILED"... depends on the message processing status. Coherence is required to keep re-indexing state column when state change happened at specified interval. At the same time, it needs to write back messages to database if "PROCESSED" or "FAILED", load "NEW" messages from db and re-index again. Coherence is used a generic database, and a lot read / write access between memory and hard disk. When switch on the production, with 50 millions messages in backend db, you can imagine what performance like. — I come across this blog when I read article about poking Spring for fun. This blog mentions about using Coherence as the L2 cache for Hibernate. This is very interesting, because I always believe performance issue is the biggest hinder for Hibernate in an Enterprise level JPA solution. Another related thing I need to mention is the project Mr. B and I are working on, an Oracle proprietary implementation. With Oracle DB, SOA, Weblogic J2EE Server, JPA, Coherence ... everything locked in Oracle. So every time when we confront with JPA bugs, Coherence performance issue, just like hitting a big wall that hardly to break in. But, we need Oracle. Not only because venders like to pay big bucks to Oracle and let them feel good, but also because "J2EE server is very good at BPEL and ESB stuff", as Mr. J pointed out. So I have been thinking that is it possible just run J2EE (Weblogic) for BPEL (high level business stuff), and let everything else (Java stuff) be managed by Spring (as it should be). Benefit from Spring's Inversion of Control especially Dependency Injection, Aspect-Oriented Programming, and other standard consistent Spring's components - Spring Web Servies, Batch, Security, Integration ..., lighter, out-of-container test framework, and powerful business products (24x7 support), so this article maybe points the direction how to let OS solutions work together with commercial proprietary applications. Read more: How do I integrate Coherence and Hibernate? - http://coherence.oracle.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16730
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGood one Deano. You should teach people the reality of ORM. I had an interview with one of my previous employers the other day. I told two people on the panel that you should be very careful about if you use Hibernate as one-size-for-all ORM solution for large data set due to coming up performance issue hit in later stage. They asked how to tune for a better performance. I said, partition database, using memory cache (db in memory) improve db I/O throughout, replacing Hibernate with JDBC. Furthermore, I hated they asked my opinion about pair programming in their third question. As I said always having another pair of eyes on the codes (codes review) is also very beneficial and effective. Not very happy with my "honest" replies, the interview was finished in just 20 minutes. — I come across this blog when I read article about poking Spring for fun. This blog mentions about using Coherence as the L2 cache for Hibernate. This is very interesting, because I always believe performance issue is the biggest hinder for Hibernate in an Enterprise level JPA solution. Another related thing I need to mention is the project Mr. B and I are working on, an Oracle proprietary implementation. With Oracle DB, SOA, Weblogic J2EE Server, JPA, Coherence ... everything locked in Oracle. So every time when we confront with JPA bugs, Coherence performance issue, just like hitting a big wall that hardly to break in. But, we need Oracle. Not only because venders like to pay big bucks to Oracle and let them feel good, but also because "J2EE server is very good at BPEL and ESB stuff", as Mr. J pointed out. So I have been thinking that is it possible just run J2EE (Weblogic) for BPEL (high level business stuff), and let everything else (Java stuff) be managed by Spring (as it should be). Benefit from Spring's Inversion of Control especially Dependency Injection, Aspect-Oriented Programming, and other standard consistent Spring's components - Spring Web Servies, Batch, Security, Integration ..., lighter, out-of-container test framework, and powerful business products (24x7 support), so this article maybe points the direction how to let OS solutions work together with commercial proprietary applications. Read more: How do I integrate Coherence and Hibernate? - http://coherence.oracle.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16730
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMany thanks for your thought K! - Yep, current JPA implementation in Weblogic is EclipseLink (buggy). - Weblogic 10 is only JEE 5 compatible. JEE 6 support you have to wait till Weblogic 12 released. - Agree, still need Weblogic does the application plumbing work as many as possible. - Have to stick with Coherence. Our implementation of coherence in our project is inappropriate because this memory cache is used to hold data that is updated frequently. This caused performance downgrade especially when to deal with big data set in the production environment. BTW, distributed object model in JEE, in a lot cases, is abused. The damage caused by the complexity and loss of performant is bigger than the gain of the distributed architecture. Give me an example of a successful distributed JEE solution. — I come across this blog when I read article about poking Spring for fun. This blog mentions about using Coherence as the L2 cache for Hibernate. This is very interesting, because I always believe performance issue is the biggest hinder for Hibernate in an Enterprise level JPA solution. Another related thing I need to mention is the project Mr. B and I are working on, an Oracle proprietary implementation. With Oracle DB, SOA, Weblogic J2EE Server, JPA, Coherence ... everything locked in Oracle. So every time when we confront with JPA bugs, Coherence performance issue, just like hitting a big wall that hardly to break in. But, we need Oracle. Not only because venders like to pay big bucks to Oracle and let them feel good, but also because "J2EE server is very good at BPEL and ESB stuff", as Mr. J pointed out. So I have been thinking that is it possible just run J2EE (Weblogic) for BPEL (high level business stuff), and let everything else (Java stuff) be managed by Spring (as it should be). Benefit from Spring's Inversion of Control especially Dependency Injection, Aspect-Oriented Programming, and other standard consistent Spring's components - Spring Web Servies, Batch, Security, Integration ..., lighter, out-of-container test framework, and powerful business products (24x7 support), so this article maybe points the direction how to let OS solutions work together with commercial proprietary applications. Read more: How do I integrate Coherence and Hibernate? - http://coherence.oracle.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16730
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Casper Casper Apple must has lost its touch on sexy names. — iPad 3? iPad HD? Or you should call it iPad S - iPad Slightly? No, it's The New iPad. Unfortunately, The New iPad can be anything but disappointing. It's definitely not a revolutionary release. The only biggest improvement I reckon is retina display. Other features like dual core A5X processor, 4G LTE network support are not good enough to let smart customers to reach their pocket deep. Well, let those die-hard, naive Apple fans chase their "dreams", a half baked bread without seasons on it. Apple is still can squeeze last drop of juice out of an orange dry.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson Really appreciate your comments K. There is a lesson I learned before on a big public website project. Till the final release day, I realised the application is missing Spring Workflow in the architect design, and should replace Struts 1.x with Spring MVC, rather than Struts 2.x (both Struts 1.x and 2.x are still too heavy and there is not much difference). But it's too late. All the decision makers, shit layers in other words, are all run away working (shitting?) for other business now.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAnyone has experience with Spring MVC, which is reckoned the best MVC, beating Struts miles away?
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Commented on post by Dean Budd<haha>Vodafail, you are the champion!</haha> — I was thrilled to see Data Bundles for Overseas on the Vodafone home page (just when I'm about to scoot off for a week) I thought, man, these Telco's are finally getting their act together when it comes to Roaming/Data Usage/Bill Shock. Until I saw this...
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd I'm just reading Postel's Law in the tutorial of Spring-WS Can't believe how simple to implement a WS in Spring. Well it seems a law for whole universe :-) — Quote of the day - "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others." In RFC 793 (1981) the late, great Jon Postel, who wrote in an early specification of the Transmission Control Protocol, laid down one of the basic design principles of the Internet, Postel's Law or the Robustness Principle, that: TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. It's not only a philosophy of software design, but also the philosophy on being oneself.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Heard of these grey water pipe set up for new house, but you are the first one writes a review :-) Simple toilet flushing system is getting complicated when the builder tries to satisfy rebate policy politicians asked. I don't understand why not has a switch in the bathroom, let you manually switch which flushing water to use? — In the wake of an overheated solar market and the global financial crisis, Spain has slashed its renewable energy subsidies. And the solar boom under the Mediterranean sun has gone bust — a stunning reversal of fortune: In 2008, 40 percent of the world's solar installations were in Spain.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Wow, you must got a complicated watertank solution at home. My one simply collect water from down pipe of the roof, so I can water the garden without using too much precious clean water from tap. But no connection to tap at all. I bought the tank and installed myself. — In the wake of an overheated solar market and the global financial crisis, Spain has slashed its renewable energy subsidies. And the solar boom under the Mediterranean sun has gone bust — a stunning reversal of fortune: In 2008, 40 percent of the world's solar installations were in Spain.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGot 2.0kw Solar system (10 huge solar panels) installed on the top roof of my home yesterday. Electricity generated immediately afterward. Feeling guilt free now after I put money on rainwater tank and solar :-) What next? Wind farm? Fusion lab at home? — In the wake of an overheated solar market and the global financial crisis, Spain has slashed its renewable energy subsidies. And the solar boom under the Mediterranean sun has gone bust — a stunning reversal of fortune: In 2008, 40 percent of the world's solar installations were in Spain.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShit, they pitched my idea! Because power company here charge me electricity on 20c per kw and buy electricity my home generate by Solar for 25c, I'm thinking just rewire the cable, redirect the electricity arrive at home back to the grid, a 5c profit per kw could cost me nothing. And I can run this business daily and nightly. :-P — In the wake of an overheated solar market and the global financial crisis, Spain has slashed its renewable energy subsidies. And the solar boom under the Mediterranean sun has gone bust — a stunning reversal of fortune: In 2008, 40 percent of the world's solar installations were in Spain.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMy business tax payment to ATO for last quater was rejected by NAB two days ago. Never happen before for payment to ATO. I have to resubmit the transaction. ATO's late pay penalty is on the way. No happy Jean! — Between the NAB and CommBank, it's a bad news day for bank IT.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao128GB is a bit limited to run any modern OS. The price for 240GB SSD is cheaper than two 120GB. Better borrow loan from Bank to build your PC.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf China ever abandoned its internet restrictions, the United States would have to protect its social media with a Great Firewall of its own. — Occupy +Barack Obama Chinese net users now can access Google+ without jumping over the Great Firewall. Unfortunately, President Obama's Google+ account soon become the target. It;s inundated with Chinese comments, most of them are pointless drip ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLike it very much except the price. — More to keep +Terrence Miao up at night.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson a better deal - http://www.itspot.com.au/corsair-16gb-mac-memory-1333mhz-cl9-ddr3-so-dimm-for-apple-p314980.html Another Apple helper - http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/ — To use the MacBook Pro as their only computer, the benefits of 16GB are compelling for big jobs, and remember that these results are with a fast solid state drive.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCorsair 16GB RAM for under $200 - http://www.corsair.com/pressrelease/corsair-announces-8gb-and-16gb-ddr3-memory-upgrades-for-apple-computers, 120GB SSD just over $200, roughly $400 extra will revive your two years old "ageing" MacBook Pro, this is not bad deal. Need to find a cheaper, refurbished MBP now ... — To use the MacBook Pro as their only computer, the benefits of 16GB are compelling for big jobs, and remember that these results are with a fast solid state drive.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakI think Chinese have already stop importing food from Japan due to radiation contamination concern. Also travellers plan to Japan diverted to somewhere else. — this was just re-shared by +Larry Page today so surely a lot of folks will see and read it... I just wanted to add that this kid has a "predecessor" which apparently did not fare as favorably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html honestly, more than anything, stories like that demonstrate that monitoring and control over dangerous materials is seriously lacking, even in highly developed countries (not to mention India, ex-USSR etc) I also heard rather skeptical opinion (from people I respect) regarding what Wilson really "achieved" and on the whole http://fusor.net movement in general... but his detector thing that got him Intel prize is most likely undeniably a 'real deal'... btw, maybe probably time to buy one - who knows how many other nerdy kids are doing what in their garages!!... let alone any proverbial 'bad guys' who might have not so good-intended intentions... :(
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGiant 4.7" screen size, lack of power battery, old fashion phone style, physical buttons, no SD extended card, Sense UI ... Like the beats audio, NVidia Tegra 3 processor, 1280x720 resolution and Android ICS. — They couldn't have announced this earlier :(
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDisappointed design and specs ... :-( Hopefully it's not the final release. — They couldn't have announced this earlier :(
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYeah, too many ideas mean no idea; too many choice means no choice ... I'll wait Asus Transformer Prime TF700T comes out :-) — +Terrence Miao will now meltdown trying to choose what to buy ;)
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Commented on post by miao tianyunMy Google Buzz URL - https://profiles.google.com/u/0/112201754385215382872/buzz — google api pageToken?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCorrection. It's 25% salary increase :-) — +Oleg Kiorsak +Dean Budd Inside preview of iFactory where makes iPhone, iPad and MacBook.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+James Gemmell I was quite impressed when J said J2EE server is very good at running BPEL, ESB (only) stuff. I like the idea that the combination of mixed full blow version of J2EE app server, running BPEL to make business people happier; and lighter containers running Java "sausage" and Spring "water" to make developers happier ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakInternet, actually Google has made our memory lazy. We get the information so quicker without pausing and thinking for a second before we click search button. — http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/02/14/how-i-improved-my-memory-over-lunch/?partner=dailycrux
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Commented on post by miao tianyunLog on Google Console - https://code.google.com/apis/console/ as terrence.miao@gmail.com Key for browser apps (with referers) API key: AIzaSyDER4rXjFsB1388mFdntHx34IN8vos4mO0 Referers: Any referer allowed Activated on: Feb 16, 2012 9:02 PM Activated by: terrence.miao@gmail.com– you — Google+ API Key 你有吗?没有要到 http://code.google.com/intl/zh-CN/apis/maps/signup.html 去注册,我昨天试了,google's takeout数据就是一个一个的网页,怎么导入都有问题,另外又一次登陆blogger 到处导出的xml文件比昨天的xml文件大不少,不知道昨天的数据全不全.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak You keep feeding Apple with patent infringement bullets :-) — Chinese officials have ban Apple to use iPad name in China because the trademark was registered by a Chinese company in 2001. Same company has said it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple iPads over a trademark dispute. All iPads are manufactured in China, meaning global sales of the tablets could be affected if the authorities agree to enforce the request, made by Shenzhen Proview Technology. Since the ban, trademark from aPad, bPad, cPad, ... till zPad have been registered and granted in China.
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Commented on post by miao tianyunI will have a look later. BTW, starCounter snippet: <!-- Start of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --> <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=7666823; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_security="52d76fb5"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script> <noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="web statistics" href="http://statcounter.com/free-web-stats/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/7666823/0/52d76fb5/0/" alt="web statistics"></a></div></noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code for Default Guide --> — Google+ API Key 你有吗?没有要到 http://code.google.com/intl/zh-CN/apis/maps/signup.html 去注册,我昨天试了,google's takeout数据就是一个一个的网页,怎么导入都有问题,另外又一次登陆blogger 到处导出的xml文件比昨天的xml文件大不少,不知道昨天的数据全不全.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperHow about on a T-Shirt says: Always give 100% at work ... 12% on Monday 23% on Tuesday 40% on Wednesday 20% on Thursday 5% on Friday — http://www.dougfinke.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/script-300x300.jpg
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyYeah I saw this news yesterday. More likely it will compete with Amazon Kindle Fire if it could match Kindle Fire's price tag at first. — A little bit underspecced but a good improvement on your current mid size tablet
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Commented on post by Casper CasperI still have and use that magic Apple's iMac keyboard and single button mouse at home. No problem if you want to right-click, is now almost universal - Hold down the "Control" then click. Of course you need another hand. However, this extrem simplicity design proven is a bad idea. God invented human with two hands and 10 fingers is make us to do multiple tasks.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperI wish Google can entertain me so I don't have to be harassed by the Foxtel sales
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Commented on post by Dean Budd"Manufactured by Certified Free Range Ethical Labour" sounds like the eggs are laid by the Certified Free Range Chicken to me ...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Leash your dog next time before UPS delivery comes. My two cents. — <rant> UPS are absolute crap! I ordered a Kindle Touch from Amazon paying a premium to get it delivered fast. It got here yesterday where UPS left a "First Delivery Attempt" notice that no-one was home to collect. They obviously don't really check because someone was home. So you're left with a couple of options, one of which I took meaning going online and changing the Delivery Address. I ring them today after the web site crashed and I was unsure of whether the address was actually accepted and asked when it would be delivered to which they reply "We don't know, maybe two business days" </rant>
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThe cause of the system meltdown - "Bank processing upgrades, as well as back-office confusion blamed on outsourcing contracts, have made Australia's banks prone to a series of high-profile technical outages in recent years."
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakSteve Jobs promised to unleash "thermonuclear war" against Google. It's not surprise he is on the FBI global terrorist list ...
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson<haha> TU GLIDe project will become famous!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSpecial K should have a Google Nexus phone. Very tempting to get a ICS running smartphone or a tablet now. — Anyone got an ICS phone?
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Commented on post by miao tianyunOK — Hey +Terrence Miao - what's up? 你的主页里有个目录blog,装了个wordpress, 但版本比较就了,我想装个新的,但我连不上你的服务商主页,我需要知道后台数据库的名称,地址,和密码
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonIt seems there are two ways to lift productivity: by investing in IT, by pushing people in the line of fire. What the other news on the headline today? Macquarie Group axes 1000 jobs ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoTo Japan this is not a happy end which once it's one of Japanese world leading industry.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUnfortunately, Samsung Electronics is the world's largest memory chip and second largest semiconductor manufacturer worldwide.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMost from CityLink, of course GLIDe
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAs an export mainly country, Japan can't devalue its currency Yen, artificially, to compete against weak Korea currency Won because America said no. So that's one reason Japanese electronics and car manufactures move to Southern East Asia countries to hedge against high value Yen. if a country doesn't have the right to issue its bond (debt), and power to control its currency, this country is the only a chip on the poker table played by the multinational bulge bracket investment banks. — End of electronics made in Japan Three Japanese Electronics Giants Sony, Panasonic, Sharp lost about totally $17 billions dollars this year. This is the worst losses in their histories. Can you still see a lot TVs, HiFi made in Japan in the shop today?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWho is still using Walkman today if there is an iPod? Have a look Nintendo's market share today after Microsoft XBox joined the game. NEC used to make PCs, Sony's monitors, Toshiba's laptops. Where you can find them now? If you can buy a small call made by Korean $5000 less than Toyota Corolla and it looks beautiful, why do you still need to pay more for the loyalty? These once invincible made-in-Japan products have become or are becoming history. The global manufacturer shift from traditional first tier countries like U.S., Japan, Europe to Korea, China and other Asian countries is likely unstoppable. And this trend is hardly forecast to be reversed. — End of electronics made in Japan Three Japanese Electronics Giants Sony, Panasonic, Sharp lost about totally $17 billions dollars this year. This is the worst losses in their histories. Can you still see a lot TVs, HiFi made in Japan in the shop today?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson I don't expect a plasma TV would last more than 5 years after its lifespan. But it's still good to watch action movie and sports on plasma. The latest LED with 200Mhz frequency TV still can't match plasma in this category :-) — End of electronics made in Japan Three Japanese Electronics Giants Sony, Panasonic, Sharp lost about totally $17 billions dollars this year. This is the worst losses in their histories. Can you still see a lot TVs, HiFi made in Japan in the shop today?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMy money is on the 65" Samsung Plasma TV ($2000), and Hyundai i35 SUV ($26,000). I bet you will see more and more TVs, Smartphones, Tablets, Cars made in rather Korea than Japan in next few years. However, I still put my money on Nikon cameras and its lens :-D — End of electronics made in Japan Three Japanese Electronics Giants Sony, Panasonic, Sharp lost about totally $17 billions dollars this year. This is the worst losses in their histories. Can you still see a lot TVs, HiFi made in Japan in the shop today?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThese are four perfectly round, concentric circles. This Optical Illusion Will Give You a Headache For the Next Two Hours
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSquint your eyes hard. That A and B squares are EXACTLY the same color.
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak"Health brings a freedom, very few realise, until they no longer have it." Very touched ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry I have to say Australia is a great country but there are some extreme lunatics wandering around ... — The internet isn't free - You pay for it with your privacy Red hot IPO this year, Facebook is valued by market up to $100 billions. There are about 850 millions registered users on Facebook today. That equals $118 per user. Think about that your life timeline, your data actually your privacy on Facebook are worth about over 100 bucks that is not bad at all. However, you won't get one cent. Mark Zuckerberg and his amigos are going to collect $100 billion cheque. Just one week ago, Google has changed its long term "Don't Be Evil" policy which mean Google is going to datamine deeper and benefice harder your digital properties stored in Google cloud. Both companies never say is that the more data they have collected, the more power they wield, and the more money they will make. Sharing is new phishing. Free is new trap for boobies. And digital data is the new currency people who own them could trade ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMaybe that 55 years old woman was still reckon she is still a 15 years old girl every man is chasing <hahaha /> — The internet isn't free - You pay for it with your privacy Red hot IPO this year, Facebook is valued by market up to $100 billions. There are about 850 millions registered users on Facebook today. That equals $118 per user. Think about that your life timeline, your data actually your privacy on Facebook are worth about over 100 bucks that is not bad at all. However, you won't get one cent. Mark Zuckerberg and his amigos are going to collect $100 billion cheque. Just one week ago, Google has changed its long term "Don't Be Evil" policy which mean Google is going to datamine deeper and benefice harder your digital properties stored in Google cloud. Both companies never say is that the more data they have collected, the more power they wield, and the more money they will make. Sharing is new phishing. Free is new trap for boobies. And digital data is the new currency people who own them could trade ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOnly authorised person can access CCTV records. But if the photo or video want to be published, people face must be masked. Same as private car plates. — The internet isn't free - You pay for it with your privacy Red hot IPO this year, Facebook is valued by market up to $100 billions. There are about 850 millions registered users on Facebook today. That equals $118 per user. Think about that your life timeline, your data actually your privacy on Facebook are worth about over 100 bucks that is not bad at all. However, you won't get one cent. Mark Zuckerberg and his amigos are going to collect $100 billion cheque. Just one week ago, Google has changed its long term "Don't Be Evil" policy which mean Google is going to datamine deeper and benefice harder your digital properties stored in Google cloud. Both companies never say is that the more data they have collected, the more power they wield, and the more money they will make. Sharing is new phishing. Free is new trap for boobies. And digital data is the new currency people who own them could trade ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf I'm waiting for my train comes in station, doing thing in public. It's illegal for anyone, even journalist take a picture of me without my permission. In public doesn't mean you relinquish your privacy willingly. This comes FB settled with FTC (Federal Trade Commission) over privacy lawsuit in 2011, just before IPO ... — The internet isn't free - You pay for it with your privacy Red hot IPO this year, Facebook is valued by market up to $100 billions. There are about 850 millions registered users on Facebook today. That equals $118 per user. Think about that your life timeline, your data actually your privacy on Facebook are worth about over 100 bucks that is not bad at all. However, you won't get one cent. Mark Zuckerberg and his amigos are going to collect $100 billion cheque. Just one week ago, Google has changed its long term "Don't Be Evil" policy which mean Google is going to datamine deeper and benefice harder your digital properties stored in Google cloud. Both companies never say is that the more data they have collected, the more power they wield, and the more money they will make. Sharing is new phishing. Free is new trap for boobies. And digital data is the new currency people who own them could trade ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThis is not Extreme Programming. This is Outrageous Programming. — A MUST watch
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakMy knowledge tell me that anything make you additive is bad to you: alcohol, drug, cigarette, porn, Ruby on Rail and coffee :-P — I guess this is good news for all folks in I.T. ;-)
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakMiddle class in China bought milk powder made in Switzerland, NZ and Australia. They come to Australia on a trip just to buy milk powder in case they don't buy faked foreign brand ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakI can only say that not all the people have the skills and resources to make faked iPhone and LV bags ... Mind you, these days in China people already know they are buying faked products but buy them because: 1. money saving 2. hardly to tell the difference between real and faked one if in pubic people don't take seriously scrutiny 3. proud of matching peers ...
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakAll about profitability. It's a shame. For some people want to get out of poverty quickly.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is the potential winner for the Pointless Research Awards in the Silly Science category this year. — Android beats iPhone in another world record In a crucial study finds that Android users are slightly more likely to use their phones in the toilet overall; 87 percent have used their phone while indisposed, versus 84 percent of BlackBerry users and 77 percent of iPhone users. Read full report: http://www.11mark.com/download/11
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is quick, simple, smaller solution J :-P — Mr. B uses this piece handy codes to detect performance bottleneck in our application. Easier share you guys info on G+ which you spend most of your time than email, right?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMilitary budget cut there is nowhere they can buy but from cheaply made in China. <hahaha /> — You just can't beat German in precision!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThat's a Nation with highly disciplined people, who ridiculously obsess with precision and philosophy. I admire German Industry miracle after WWII. China buy Wine farms in France, Mining in Australia, but buy Engineering Manufacturer in Germany - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-27/sany-will-buy-cement-pump-maker-putzmeister-in-biggest-china-german-deal.html If Volkswagon, BMW, and Mercedes have a price tag, Chinese will buy them all. Si vous voyez un entrepreneur chinois sauter par la fenêtre, suivez-le, il y a sûrement de bonnes affaires à faire. Translated into English: If you see a Chinese jumping out of the window, follow him, there are surely good bargains to make. — You just can't beat German in precision!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMr. B is all mighty Mr. Bryan Murphy who lives in the good old time and doesn't make a crack of all the modern things, like Ruby, Tablet and Shares ... — Mr. B uses this piece handy codes to detect performance bottleneck in our application. Easier share you guys info on G+ which you spend most of your time than email, right?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe economic arguments against industry subsidy are well known and well understood. They reward poor business practice, perpetuate reliance on handouts, waste valuable revenue on economically unviable projects, and prevent important structural adjustment. But putting the economic arguments aside, policymakers and politicians should expect that after receiving assistance for half a century, employees not only grow dependent on handouts but begin to feel entitled. When subsidies are continually renewed, it is not hard to see why employees hold the government responsible for their employment circumstances rather than themselves. http://cis.org.au/publications/ideasthecentre/article/3907-car-industry-handouts-are-childish-?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed — Another industry is doing to disappear soon in Australia. Car industry in Australia is not dead but is dying. The combination of a historically high Australian dollar, the high cost base of local producers, and changing consumer trends had put local manufacturing under pressure. China last year produced more than 18 million cars. Australia makes just over 250,000 a year. South Korea and Japan each produce millions of vehicles, all aimed at export markets. Billion dollars Federal government put in and try to revive the car industry is totally waste. This is another example of Global Industrial Shift. Tread your own path. Make sure you board on the right bus.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI didn't know Chris Lynch has done so much for TU, and GLIDe, maybe :-) Driving Lynch's Transurban legacy Stephen Bartholomeusz It is a tribute to Chris Lynch’s relatively brief tenure as chief executive of Transurban that the toll road group, which was enveloped in crisis within months of his appointment in 2008, is today regarded as a conservative blue-chip. Lynch deserves credit for remaking the model for infrastructure investment after the old leveraged template developed by Macquarie Group was undermined and discredited by the global financial crisis. In fact, Lynch proved prescient because he radically re-engineered the Transurban model several months before the crisis properly engulfed the sector when Lehman Bros collapsed in September 2008. At the time, it appeared Lynch – a former BHP Billiton chief executive and rival to Marius Kloppers for that group’s top job – may have gone overboard in dismantling a model that had previously produced very attractive yields for investors by borrowing against rising asset valuations and future cash flows. There was a strong intellectual underpinning to that model, given that Transurban’s toll roads generated CPI-plus revenue growth over concession periods lasting decades. It enabled infrastructure operators to give their current investors some of the future embedded value of the super cash flows the concessions generate towards the end of their life. As the credit crisis unfolded and morphed into a full-scale global financial crisis, however, that wasn’t a story frightened investors wanted to hear. Lynch slashed distributions to bring them into line with the cash Transurban was actually generating, which decimated the group’s yield, and raised $1 billion of equity to deleverage the balance sheet. He introduced a stringent culture of cost control. Essentially he de-risked and simplified a previously complex structure and, after an initial investor backlash, eventually convinced the market that the new Transurban model was the template for the post-crisis environment. He has also been able to do something else that, in theory, should have been near impossible. The nature of discounted cash flow valuations means that there is minimal value attributed to cash that will be generated in the long term, despite the near-guaranteed step-up in the cash flows from established toll roads. That tends to make toll road operators more valuable to offshore pension funds with long-term liabilities than equity market investors. Lynch and his board were, however, able to fight off a sustained series of takeover approaches in 2010 from Canada Pension Plan Investment board, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and CP2 – Transurban’s major security holders at the time. Despite the failure of the pension funds’ assault and the difficult sharemarket environment over the past year, however, Transurban securities trade above the price the funds offered. After only four years with the group, Lynch’s decision to retire has come as something of a surprise, even though he had indicated that he believed five years was about the right tenure for a chief executive. His appointment last year to the Rio Tinto board was perhaps a pointer to his thinking and his future plans, although he apparently has yet to decide whether or not, at 58, he has ended his executive career. Transurban’s chairman, Lindsay Maxstead, made it fairly clear today that the core strategy developed by Lynch would be maintained. There is some unfinished business within the group for Lynch’s successor to tackle and embedded options to evaluate. A number of its Australian toll roads are in the midst of upgrades or have further value-adding potential, while its two US projects are still works-in-progress. Transurban’s status as owner of one of the bigger and higher-quality portfolios of toll road assets in the world at a time of acute financial and economic pressures in the US and Europe may also throw up some more opportunistic growth options. In any event, Lynch’s successor – and there are a number of strong internal candidates as well as an external search underway – will inherit a growth business in very strong condition and with a very clear model and strategy. — I miss him so much, especially at the end of every month drinking party.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd The only way you can tell the difference between Aussie Bob and Kiwi Terry is Kiwis pronounce the following words: fish, chips, six, ten as Fush and Chups, Sux and Tin.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAn upside-down ewe make all the sense for Australia.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonA philosophy professor asked this student just one question for their final exam. The question was: How are you going to make me believe that this chair in front of you is invisible? It took all the student one hour to finish writing their answer, except for one lazy student who only took five seconds. After that day. the results are posted. The lazy student got the highest score. His answer was: What chair? The merit of this story is Don't make simple things complicated. Sometimes the less complicated things are the more convincing it become. Pollies made the worst case on Myki by using the money not belong to them, making the service not serving them. They should be dumped into Port Phillip bay. — For a hold out like me who is going to have to cave and get a Myki, where's the HOWTO?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBig thumb up for Mr. J's creative destruction theory. NYTimes has article about once tech gadgets that seemed indispensable have been mercilessly superseded over the years - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/business/blackberry-aiming-to-avoid-the-hall-of-fallen-giants.html This including Polaroid instant cameras have disappeared almost completely with the spread of digital photography; Sony Walkman by entering of Apple and iPod; Palm Pilot by iPhone and Android; Atari by Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox. Same theory also applied to Australian car industry. Let's it die or die earlier maybe better for the country. Like TV, refrigerator, PC, car is more like commodity you can buy in supermarket than a "high-end" product today. And "high-end" product doesn't guarantee mass production and profitable. Volkswagen made more money than BMW, Mercedes because it make affordable cars for Average Joes. Anyway, every tax payers should ask how their money spent by pollies. — Another industry is doing to disappear soon in Australia. Car industry in Australia is not dead but is dying. The combination of a historically high Australian dollar, the high cost base of local producers, and changing consumer trends had put local manufacturing under pressure. China last year produced more than 18 million cars. Australia makes just over 250,000 a year. South Korea and Japan each produce millions of vehicles, all aimed at export markets. Billion dollars Federal government put in and try to revive the car industry is totally waste. This is another example of Global Industrial Shift. Tread your own path. Make sure you board on the right bus.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoWith U.S. Reserve Bank keeps interest rate between 0% to 0.25% till the end of year 2014, it's unlikely Aussie dollar will soon back to its historical average and its true value, i.e., 80 U.S. cent. So it's hard for local car manufacturers which target is oversea market. Mind you, no industry protected from market competition by a financial great wall set up by the government around will perform at its best. Resulting in unnecessarily make Aussies paid their houses, cars and other industry goods local made in high price. — Another industry is doing to disappear soon in Australia. Car industry in Australia is not dead but is dying. The combination of a historically high Australian dollar, the high cost base of local producers, and changing consumer trends had put local manufacturing under pressure. China last year produced more than 18 million cars. Australia makes just over 250,000 a year. South Korea and Japan each produce millions of vehicles, all aimed at export markets. Billion dollars Federal government put in and try to revive the car industry is totally waste. This is another example of Global Industrial Shift. Tread your own path. Make sure you board on the right bus.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao1% doesn't mean we are too rich. It's because there are so many people are too poor. — Based on the average income $66,000 per annual, an Aussie is the 52,816,732 richest person in the world! an Aussie in the TOP 0.88% richest people in the world!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI went to Telstra Shop in Bourke St today. Had this HTC Velocity 4G brochure in hand. I will wait and check more reports on average speed in peak hour, in full capacity, and location people can maximise the result.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Grant Sheppard No worries. I have registered my dog's name in RSPCA. The dog has a microchip and ID tag now. It's easier for Google to trace. — Damn... looks like I might be shutting another account down.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddTime to train my dog to use Google apps for me ... — Damn... looks like I might be shutting another account down.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGlad to hear that. G+ Real Name policy finally makes sense. Feel much safer that when Google watch you and stalk you. Like Larry Page's evil grim ... — Damn... looks like I might be shutting another account down.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI won't be too exciting about Samsung Galaxy S3. HTC is going to announce the first quad-core processors smartphone HTC Edge on Feb 26th - http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_to_unveil_its_first_quadcore_smartphone_on_february_26-news-3689.php The spec is just amazing: Each of the four Tegra 3 cores of the HTC Edge will be clocked at 1.5GHz. 1GB of RAM will be at your disposal, along with 32GB of built-in memory. The device will offer a 4.7" screen with HD resolution. An 8MP camera unit with f/2.2 lens, capable of capturing 1080p videos will be present as well. Bluetooth 4.0 is expected on board, along with the rest of the usual connectivity. Certain to see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box. A number of new HTC content services are also expected. The HTC Edge is expected to hit the market in late Q1, or early Q2 of next year. My advice to you: wait!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoToday's wisdom is a tribute to my favourite asinine media & newspaper published in Melbourne - Herald "Horny" Sun. — Wisdom of the day - The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBookmarked. Reduce-sized JPEG looks more vivid than original one :-) It's psycho effect when cost you less bandwidth, storage and time consuming.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWow, a VMWare for tablet! How cool OS solution is by encouraging more innovations than oligopoly. I still remember the exciting day when VMWare released version 0.9 on Linux. — Like hell that'll get through the app store.
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Commented on post by Oleg Kiorsak+Oleg Kiorsak Health care system and social security network are expanding from city to rural in China now. Nine years FREE education for all the children under 15, but parents still need pay a lot of other education cost, like uniform, and all the hobbies, sports learning fees. FREE High education, that is socialism, that won't last long. Once upon a time, when the Whitlam government abolished higher-education fees, instituted a system of free and universally available health care, but, this brought a government collapsed. Happy Chinese Dragon New Year to you too! Hopefully the dragon, according to Chinese zodiac - a symbol of royalty, fortune and power, can bring roar and stability back to global stock markets.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI always start using a new monthly ticket on Monday, so it will last more than 4 weeks. I switch to 10x 2 hours ticket the for the rest days in the 5th week after monthly ticket expired. When on monthly ticket, I travel like a king, go anywhere if train/tram reachable. When on 10x 2hours ticket I travel like a beggar, don't travel at weekend. On foot or by bike if possible. A good plan will save you a few dollars than buying 12 monthly ticket. Does Myki have this flexibility? BTW, I live in Zone 2, but go to Zone 1 station and take train to city. — For a hold out like me who is going to have to cave and get a Myki, where's the HOWTO?
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakThere is joke about Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Cuban president Fidel Castro, Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping once in a car driving down a road and approaching an intersection. An argument break out which way to go. Gorbachev says it should turn right, Castro insists it should turn left. Without a result, they hesitate and ask Deng Xiaoping. Thinks for a while, Deng replies: ''Signal left and turn right.'' This is current Chinese politics. Under the cover of Marxism and Communism, there is big current Capitalism underneath. The country a bit like industry revolution happened in 16th century in Europe, accumulating and sucking any capital available like tornado, on the compromise of civil rights. Unfortunately, it's impossible to bring slavery in China now like more than 100 years ago in U.S. The working condition and human rights in FoxConn is unacceptable by developed Western country. However, workers in FoxConn is still better off comparing their life in rural country, who most of them farm on the land can only produce the food for themselves, and without health system and social security. Chinese know that they have take a long and painful way if they want to have a living standard like in U.S. today.
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakAnother great article published by New York Times, a respectable publisher with golden integrity and undisputed reputation, which Warren Buffett is a big fan and shareholder of NYTimes. Geography evolve as technology progressed. 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, 15 minutes break for lunch and toilet, no coffee break, no cigarette break, no morning tea, no afternoon tea, and no union. Work at weekend and work on demand, if they are not happy, they don't go strike. How U.S. workers, for example, in GM assembly line factories who make US$ 100K could compete with above Chinese workforce during the globalisation. Americans must adapt, learn new skills and do more exercise. President Obama's policy to encourage more U.S. companies to keep jobs in U.S. won't work if only tax offset carrot on the menu ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThis is a good study case how you design public used application, simplicity vs. complicity, Metcard vs. Myki. As Pollies jump in to show their authority "how to do a thing right", they forget they are not professional technicians, financial planners, lawyers, daily shifts working dads & mums, they are a huge dumping of professional politicians. Under the "Advance Australia Fair" propaganda, Pollies have made simple things complicated, have made ordinary people life messy. Why not just introduce flat fee, for example, $2 per day, for all the metro travellers; why not get rid of data sync via wireless network between Myki validation machine and data center, and save a few seconds waiting time per traveller; why not just only do validation before boarding, and save time and no queue to validate again after jumping off ... However Myki just makes Fair things worse - longer queue and more frustrations. I don't believe other 70% people start switching to Myki will make it better. People who continues the resistance to Myki's invasion, like me, people who uses fare evasion, like Deano, actually are good citizens to bring fairness back to this country ... — For a hold out like me who is going to have to cave and get a Myki, where's the HOWTO?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBuying 10 trips 2 hours Metcard instead, urinating Myki vend machine if you see one, because it's fair piss on something is called crap. — For a hold out like me who is going to have to cave and get a Myki, where's the HOWTO?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Kieran Simpson Sorry, I should say this transparent panel should be mounted at the bottom position of the windscreen, displaying road map, travel info and speedo in front of you while you drive. So you don't need to look down or other side to read them. Road view shouldn't be blocked anytime. — Smart window and expensive window
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCar industry, the first thought come to me. I'd like the windscreen in my car is this transparent panel, so GPS app can display 3D street map on the screen in front of me. — Smart window and expensive window
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDeano, if you would have listend Mr. J's whingering and murmur when both you squatted in the same bunker, you won't have this surprise so later till today! — OMG! Infinite Growth is actually unrealistic! Who would have thought! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou shouldn't take serious of the predictions and reports from two world financial organisations. One is World Bank who is used to make a lot inaccurate predictions; another is IMF (International Monetary Fund) who make more accurate statistics but most time they come six months later. — OMG! Infinite Growth is actually unrealistic! Who would have thought! hahaha
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Commented on post by Oleg KiorsakPropaganda in the next level! Communism is invading the land controlled by Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, but also by funny men Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who is the candidate for the next Pope - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-heffernan/pope-stephen-colbert_b_1208130.html?ref=religion
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak All these high-rise apartments must have the priceless sea view :-) Anyway, HongKong has the most density population on earth. Someone enjoys the delicious cuisines, latest fashion from all over the world, duty free electronic gadgets from Japan and cheap direct manufacture output from China ... To me, it's sight to visit, but not a place to work and live. — Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085752/Eye-sky-The-pretty-patterns-housing-developments-world.html
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Commented on post by Casper CasperYes, we are. That's why chimpanzees are not eligible to vote in election here ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThree reasons you don't need 3G for tablet: 1. You don't read tablet while you are walking and running. 2. 3G is slow 3. When free WiFi hotspots can cover CBD and most main streets, you really don't need this useless feature.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoVery true. Only two things U.S. government can't do: 1. Control of the weather 2. Print gold. — The only bank made huge profit last year in U.S. is US Federal Reserve. Because of its unique business model. Rather than paying for funding, it simply creates the money that it needs at no cost. The return on its investments, as a result, almost all flows directly to the bottom line. Hope Fed Reserve can list itself in NY Stock market one day ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoU.S. government, represented by President Obama, is the solo and the biggest shareholder at the moment. Americans should break this monopoly in the coming President election <hahaha /> — The only bank made huge profit last year in U.S. is US Federal Reserve. Because of its unique business model. Rather than paying for funding, it simply creates the money that it needs at no cost. The return on its investments, as a result, almost all flows directly to the bottom line. Hope Fed Reserve can list itself in NY Stock market one day ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFantastic!
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Commented on post by Casper CasperCanada is going exactly like Communism. Media censorship and oppression the freedom of lying. How the people from free world can live and work in such a country. — http://sayitaintsoalready.com/2011/03/02/fox-shut-out-of-canada-because-of-a-law-against-lying-during-newscasts/
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Commented on post by Dean BuddResearch is backed by the hard earned thirst Victoria Bitter? — <sigh> And I thought science was "advanced"... hahaha
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonAfter read so many negative reviews (GPS, WiFi, ICS ...) on Transformer Prime TF201, and so many positive reviews on next Transformer Prime TF700T, I have to painfully decide I'm going to wait for another few months when TF700T hits the shelf. "Sitting on the cutting edge technology you cut yourself as well". This time money talks. I'm going to play with ICS in the emulator for the moment :-( I blame Asus who can't grab the money out of my pocket ... — Have you got one yet +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIt's a super backup (secondary) phone at such a good price if you lost your primary one :-) — Shout out for Mr. B. Huawai, the most favourite brand of Mr. J, is going to make a big impact in smartphone market this year with this toy: • at 6.68mm thin, the thinner smartphone ever • 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 960 x 540 displays • dual-core 1.5Ghz processor • 1GB RAM • a beefier 1800mAh battery • 1.3MP HD front facing camera capable of 720p capture, in addition to an 8MP module on the back prepped for 1080p video • run ICS • release in April, price around $400
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFinally you can search your own G+ junk posts!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonRumours that Ubuntu will have an optimised version run on tablet devices as alternative to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7. Look the interface of Ubuntu TV, that should fit on tablet quite well!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonPlease don't underestimate Windows Phone. It gets pedigree of pure scratch from the design. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/technology/microsoft-defying-image-has-a-design-gem-in-windows-phone.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonExactly! +Dean Budd I reckon there are already a few apps run on tablet to train your dog. But you don't mix up your licking fingers with your pet's saliva. — Have you got one yet +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyWatching HD on 60" big screen not 10" tablet mate! — Hold your order. THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT !!!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Dean Budd The disadvantage of the advantage technology today is, harrumph, keep waiting ... The screen size and resolution on Transfomer Prime is good enough for reading and watching; quad-core processor is powerful enough for all apps at least come in next two years ... Everyone need one tablet, even your dog. — Have you got one yet +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyA good backup (secondary) phone if you lost your primary one :-) http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/huawei-ascend-p1-s-and-p1-hands-on/ — http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tgdaily_all_sections/~3/8CSQYHu-7Dw/60673-huawei-unveils-worlds-slimmest-smartphone
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMany thanks K. My money is ready. My gun has been loaded. My fingers are itchy. Going to buy the a basic model, 32GB without keyboard. Found one on http://www.becextech.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24_79&products_id=1466 But will wait a bit for a good deal comes ... — Have you got one yet +Terrence Miao
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonShop URL? Does your MPB support two 8GB memory sticks? — MPB 16GB RAM down to ~$250 USD. Wonder if I can get work to give me an upgrade?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSoftware design is like playing snookers. 0.1cm away from the aiming target and the result will exponentially divergent into chaos. — "Agile does not advise against design up front. It advises against BIG design up front. Why? Software is cheaper to build than design." HT: @unclebobmartin
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHow lucky Aussies are. They almost have tennis and golf courses in every suburbs and country towns. Life is unfair to HongKongese. They work hard so they can live in a "shoebox". And that shoebox is more expensive than the price of an average house down-under. — Who wants to vacuum TWENTY-FOUR rooms! Sheesh!
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Is that all your point? Playing games than a normal life? :-P — Who wants to vacuum TWENTY-FOUR rooms! Sheesh!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThe video title is seduced and confused. It should call "one room transforms into 24 rooms". Mate, have you been to HK? It's OK to live in a shoebox and sleep in a wooden sliding drawer, but how about outdoor activities. You play golf in a mini course and play table tennis as tennis instead? — Who wants to vacuum TWENTY-FOUR rooms! Sheesh!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHusbands will love this semi-automatic self-filled form if they don't know how to say sorry to their wives.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddToo late to name the project eMule. Robot walks like a real modern donkey. — Move over (Mars) Rover!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMy next hobby will be CPU collection ... — Receipt for gold: • First CPU thrown into the nitric acid solution, the pins of the dissolved copper and silver, then gold still left in the CPU. • Next, using hydrogen peroxide and hydrochloric acid mixture soak prepared CPU, filter the solution after a few hours to get residue. • Then with a certain concentration of concentrated hydrochloric acid and soaked with bleach residues, followed by the gold-bearing compounds will be restored. Because gold lower melting point than other metals can be heated to high temperatures by controlling certain, gold will be extracted.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDeano, this is how capitalism makes this world turning around. If you don't buy shares and become a shareholder, where do you park your spare dollars, saving in the bank account your money will finally flourish bank's shareholders, buying computer games you benefit game companies shareholders, though your original intention is not to sponsor any devils and terrorists. As a shareholder, at least, you can have a word to CEO - "Don't be so naughty. Otherwise I will get your bottom smacked."
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Commented on post by Dean BuddA business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. So that's why you need invest business with ethics, not the drug dealers, not the tobacco companies who kill their customers, not the dodgy companies like Myer who doesn't promise the maximising value you will be rewarded, but just with Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins' face and body on its IPO prospectus.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThanks Asus, I don't mind much about the warranty, because I know after I pay the money, the value of the tablet in my hands is already halved ... — I'm anti-lock-anything! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddRegarding the bootloader, the reason we chose to lock it is due to content providers' requirement for DRM client devices to be as secure as possible. ASUS supports Google DRM in order to provide users with a high quality video rental experience. Also, based on our experience, users who choose to root their devices risk breaking the system completely. However, we know there is demand in the modding community to have an unlocked bootloader. Therefore, ASUS is developing an unlock tool for that community. Please do note that if you choose to unlock your device, the ASUS warranty will be void, and Google video rental will also be unavailable because the device will be no longer protected by security mechanism. Asus' comments about Transformer Prime bootloader on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ASUS/posts/300815559961849 Why Facebook?! — I'm anti-lock-anything! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSorry Deano, can't see an open boot loader from Asus will add any value to its tablets. A house without security system is a good target, but it's as same as a house equipped with security but a broken one ... — I'm anti-lock-anything! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI don't mind the priority of customers, employees and shareholders. Based on the long term investment strategy, I still hope shareholders get the maximised reward in the end. Buffett says it best: "The first rule of investing is don't lose money; the second rule is don't forget Rule No. 1."
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Commented on post by Dean BuddTransformer Prime has been rooted. ICS update comes to it on Jan 12th. Well, my fingers are itchy now - http://phandroid.com/2012/01/03/asus-transformer-prime-is-rooted/ — I'm anti-lock-anything! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou will get it for FREE 10 years later. Intel need suck the money more and quickly. — Check out the "street price" on that sucker!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThis is a good way recycle the base metal from scrapper, but the environmental issue should never be ignored. Also Chinese use recycled cooking oil, but the scandal broke out when people found that they are not used as diesel for the engine in cars and aircrafts, but back the food market as the cooking oil which will cause serious health problem in public because of high profit margin. Good intentions may also do as evil ... — Where old Christmas tree lights go to die.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddPlus newly report GPS malfunction reported by some Transformer Prime customers. Highly doubt I will rush to get one when it hits the market this month in Australia. — I'm anti-lock-anything! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI didn't get into sleep till 3 o'clock this morning. Though the temperature outside was 23 some degree, but inside I could still feel the heat radiation coming from the wall, carpet, mattress, even the tiles in bathroom ... Hail then heat wave across Victoria in just a few days. Wired weather pattern. I blame Global Warming and it's all government fault :-P — Melbourne Weather... where it's cooler at 1pm than it was at midnight last night... lol
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphySome Transformer Prime users have reported functional working GPS on their own tablets. How could Asus make this happen in manufacturing, some work, some don't? — http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tgdaily_all_sections/~3/81gDNy2me20/60531-transformer-prime-experiences-user-backlash
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonLunch with a couple who both are my friends on Boxing day at their home which is going to be knocked down in one month. They are going to build a shining new house in an average Melbourne suburb. Soon after their new house in the lock-up stage, the couple will be in $1.6 million debt, all linked to the mortgage, including their three investment properties. They borrow such a huge amount money from one lender. This lender is a "shameless" big bank in Australia, who lends the money to the couple on earning average income, and their investment properties on the a large negative gearing. Someone is happy living with a lot debt. Someone can't afford to buy a house but enjoy buying Tattslotto every week, hoping one day JackPot win will let him buy a dream house. It's a way of life, isn't it? Well, on the other side, I'm the shareholder of this "shameless" bank and Tatts group. Though I like the dividend they pay me every year, but on ethical and moral point, I don't agree the practice on putting people into near bankruptcy at all. — The post date may have been before Christmas, however "For those who think Australia can do no wrong and Australia is the place to be, need to take another look at Australian housing, Australian retail, and also the slowdown in China. I contend things are going to get very nasty for those down under."
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao"Trading is against human nature." When try to predict something unpredictable, when try to make a judgement on the facts & statistics human's brain can't handle ... — As the novices learn the dark art of trading stocks and shares, the financial markets start to buckle. Making money takes second place to basic survival as the brutal realities of global economics take their toll on the traders. Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. The experiment reveals the inner workings of a City trading floor. The money is supplied by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam: he wants to see if ordinary people can beat the professionals, and he expects a return on his investment too. Yet no-one foresees the financial crisis that lies ahead. The traders were selected in spring 2008, before the US credit crisis gathered pace. The successful candidates were chosen, trained and dispatched to their specially created trading room in the heart of the Square Mile. Among them are an environmentalist, a soldier, a boxing promoter, an entrepreneur, a retired IT consultant, a vet, a student and a shopkeeper.
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Commented on post by Srini VaidyanathanWow! Was there hail in Hopper Crossing on Xmas Day? Didn't receive in Point Cook.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNo one phone can be still in love for more than two years! — First G+ post from my Galaxy Nexus. After ~3 years it was time for an upgrade.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddDeano, when did you convert to an environmentalist? One drawback of Solar Panel is it has a lifespan of about 10 to 25 years, and their value and wattage output decrease steadily over time. And depend on quality, age, and technology when it is built. Looking for cheap solution. Better if the material is FREE, and can D.I.Y. Read more: http://www.solarpanelinfo.com/solar-panels/solar-panel-cost.php
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphySkip 21 minutes from beginning, and see the last few seconds how a Perpetual Motion Machine is dying :-D More than 22 minutes is amazing! — Amazing how such a simple system with only 2 moving parts can have such a complex motion. Spend the Next 22 Minutes Mesmerized By This Near-Perpetual Motion Double Pendulum - http://gizmodo.com/5869648/spend-the-next-22-minutes-mesmerized-by-this-near+perpetual-motion-double-pendulum
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyDon't you really feel sick of these people like Hasbro?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonPatent squatting, let me put this way, just like after Apple has put its logo on all the toilet seats in one of the busiest place in Melbourne - Flinders Station. If Apple doesn't allow to use the toilet seats, no one can use them and make a dump. It's called Intellectual Property Protection in an internet age. The more toilet seats you can squat, the more people you can demand, for a ransom, if they want to ... Chinese are learning quickly from Apple on this. Check: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/21/dominant_u_s_app_store_may_be_surpassed_by_china_in_2012.html — Maybe now the US will turn on the system :p
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyGood but not my Samsung Table 7 included. Not very happy ... — http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/xj9rkFduDyU/samsung-to-push-out-android-4-upgrades-to-selected-devices-by-march-2012.ars
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonOnly three of top 25 biggest U.S. companies are sitting on huge pile of cash without paying one cent dividend - Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett you can trust him buying good companies under the intrinsic value with cash reserved. Steve Jobs and Larry Page? They will get lost with too much money.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoFriggin awesome! — "Let it snow" - Season's greetings from Google http://www.google.com.au/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=let+it+snow&pbx=1&oq=let+it+snow&aq=f&aqi=g-z1g2g-z1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=14396l15935l1l16400l11l0l10l0l1l0l0l0ll9l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=e364729b69652a0f&biw=1353&bih=735
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Oleg Kiorsak Good fight back Oleg! :-) Regarding to car price, I remember I checked them in U.S when Aussie dollars high above parity. Basically, if you spend 50 grands, you can drive away an Audi TT; if you have A$ 70,000, you can buy a new Porsche. U.S. doesn't have the high tax on import cars, even native three car giant almost bankrupted during GFC. On the contrary, Australia is an extreme example of protectionism. Not only in its industry, agriculture, mining, banking, even in retailing. Result of protectionism is there is no world famous brand like Coca-cola, Microsoft, Walmart in Australia. There is no such the richest person like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett from Australia. Australian businesses are hard competing in world stage. News Corp. is born here, but run on the bending of "ethics and integrity". The top 10 richest people in Australia are in mining, property development and casinos. — "Australians regularly pay more for their bananas compared to say a country like Germany where they don't even grow bananas," The price difference between cars in Australia and abroad can be enormous. "One example is a top-end-of-the-market Mercedes we found here for $360,000 and in Britain you could get the exact same car for $110,000." When it comes to housing affordability in Australia, Dr Hartwich says government is almost entirely to blame. "We've got so much land we could theoretically develop so there should never be a housing shortage in Australia." So that's why people say Australia is a "lucky" country.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSend more drones to Iran! A few years later Walmart will be inundated with those "shameless" duplicators. Have you seen those Swift Infrared Control Helicopter Toy selling in K-Mart as low as $30. I suspect they based on shot down U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. It's fast lane that military weapons can become civilian products. — No.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jH74e3Qo9k — Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing You get a shiver in the dark It's a rainin' in the park, but meantime South of the river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowin' Dixie double four time You feel alright when you hear the music ring... And now you step inside but you don't see too many faces Comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down Competition in other places... Oh but the horns they blowin' that sound Way on down south, way on down south London town You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords But he's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing They've said an old guitar is all he can afford When he gets up under the lights to play his thing And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make the scene He's got a daytime job, he's doin' alright He can play the honky tonk like anything Savin' it up, Friday night... With the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles They don't give a damn 'bout any trumpet playing band It ain't what they call rock and roll And the Sultans... yeah the Sultans, they play Creole Creole baby Uh huh And then the man he steps right up to the microphone And says at last just as the time bell rings 'Goodnight, now it's time to go home' And he makes it fast with one more thing 'We are the Sultans... We are the Sultans of Swing'
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson K, maybe you should have a look inside the Bible. Once the LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you ..." Do you still want to in the same trousers with Optus? — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHurrah! Let me propose that all Unico Glide developers, including the incumbent and those already gone, come together for a drink to celebrate GLIDe goes live ... — GLIDE is GO LIVE! Hold on to your hats and keep off the roads!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThese two shops selling unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $739 http://www.techrific.com.au/samsung-galaxy-nexus-android-smart-phone-nexus-prime-free-shipping-no-cc-surcharge-p-2175.html http://www.becextech.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1271 — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson4" touch screen size I reckon is the best for smartphone. 5" Dell streak maybe is a bit chunky in hand and in pocket. 3.5" like iPhone is a bit tiny (rumours that iPhone 5 is going to be 4" bigger screen). — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoRead more - http://www.ainovo.com/ — World first Android 4.0 ICS tablet with 7" touchscreen for only $99 Holy cow! Everyone need a tablet now, even your dog.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI have a crappy Nokia with Optus and a Samsung Galaxy Tab with Telstra. Conversation over Optus during 5pm to 6pm struggle to hear to other end clearly. Feel lucky if I can have network after work on Friday. I still with Optus because it's on an Enterprise plan. That is to say monthly fee can be zero if I don't make any call. — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTelstra has better signal (in the tunnel, under the bridge and in the train, tram) and bigger coverage. Everyone knows you hate Stephen Conroy, but that shouldn't be an excuse not buying Telstra, and maybe NBN. — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThanks K. I will checkout it in Telstra Shop late this week. Maybe I should wait a bit longer for HTC Edge comes out then make a final verdict. — No doubt +Terrence Miao will be first in line!!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Reza Alavi Me too. Samsung Galaxy 10.1 is good, but Asus Transformer Prime will rule them all! — Finally, justice wins. Don't stop believing! It's the first battle win by Samsung over the long fight against Apple over patent dispute. It's too late, but, good thing comes to those who can wait till the last ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDo you know pepper spray can cause permanent brain damage? — Democracy in retrospect - a great day for democracy Pepper spraying to peaceful protestors, just sitting on the ground, threatening no one.
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Commented on post by Alex Megremis+Casper Casper How clean, light and straight forward using Spring's bolts and nuts to design a RESTful service! No messy WSDLs, XML, schema ... to get simple job done quickly! — Quick feeler: For a SOAP web service app, where you're consuming other ws and JMS queues, and serving up SOAP, is there any compelling reason to pick SpiringWS over Axis2, or even plain JAX-WS? I have never built something from scratch with either, and, on a recommendation, I first looked at SpringWS. This being a top-down implementation, I've already written an example WSDL. In one day of research/playing I came away without a working example, with MANY questions, and with a strong dislike for all the extra configuration I'd need to manage in application-context.xml. Yesterday I came away with a semi-working Axis2 service (with a lot of help from Eclipse's wizard, of course) in little time. EDIT: However, I am not getting back my original WSDL from this, which is unacceptable, as, among other things, my original interface versioning information is lost. Any feelings, thoughts, or words of wisdom?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIt seems like Apple is trying to earn itself more money by filing infringement cases with their biggest competitors these days. — Finally, justice wins. Don't stop believing! It's the first battle win by Samsung over the long fight against Apple over patent dispute. It's too late, but, good thing comes to those who can wait till the last ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoA tablet built like a brick, and built with everything in it. It's going to be good enough only up to you and your needs.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://www.slashgear.com/bill-gates-helping-china-build-super-safe-nuclear-reactor-08200894/ — "The idea is to be very low-cost, very safe and generate very little waste," said Gates during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Bill-Gates-to-Build-Nuclear-Reactors-in-China.html — "The idea is to be very low-cost, very safe and generate very little waste," said Gates during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThe cop is quite fat! — A great day for democracy, in one of great democratic countries Read more TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2011 http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/07/time-picks-the-top-10-photos-of-the-year
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWell, add Google Music and Google Currents in your Xmas wish list, even they are not available internationally.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGreat! Finally, Android has a killer application head to head Flipboard on iOS!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao专业翻新核弹头, 潜艇抛光, 回收二手航母, 大修核反应堆, 航天飞机保养换三滤, 高空作业擦洗卫星表面积尘. 有发票. — Professional Service is offering our customers with the best possibilities, which measurable difference from our competition by providing: • nuclear warheads revamping • submarines polishing • second-hand aircraft recycling • nuclear reactors overhauling • space shuttles maintenance • satellites surface scrubbing Service invoice provided
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao有一天,一位其貌不扬的男士,带着一位十分艳丽的OL,来到Causeway Bay一家LV店。他为OL选了一价值6万5元的LV handbag。付款时,男士掏出支票本,十分潇洒地签了一张支票。店员有些为难,因为这对夫妇是第一次来店购物。 男士看穿了店员的心思,十分冷静地对店员说: "我感觉到,您担心这是一张是空头支票,对吗?今天是周六,银行关门。我建议您把支票和handbag都留下。等到星期一支票兑现之后,再请你们把 handbag 送到这位小姐的府上。您看这样行不行?" 店员放了下心来,欣然地接受了这个建议,并且大方的承诺,递送handbag的费用由该店承担,他本人将会亲自把这件事情给办妥。 星期一,店员拿着支票去银行入账,支票果真是张空头支票!愤怒的店员打电话给那位顾客,客户对他说: "这没有什么要紧啊!你和我都没有损失。上星期六的晚上我已经同那个女孩上床了!哦,多谢您的合作。" 这个故事揭示了次贷危机的本质。人们在对未来收益充满良好预期的时候,对于可能加大风险缺乏防范意识。美女认为周一六万多LV就到家了,自然也就放松了警惕,认为ONS的投资是值得的,对于投入产出的预期是建立在一个具有巨大不确定风险的情况下的。而对未来收益预期的包装则是这些投资机构最擅长的事情。中国的股民大多跟这个美女一样,所以亏钱基本上是活该,没有这些人,股市赚谁的钱呢。而媒体和分析家们,往往在其中扮演了LV店员的配合角色。 — One day, a quite awful looking young man brought with a very beautiful girl into a Louis Vuitton flag store. He chose a very expensive LV handbag. Then the young man pulled out cheque book, signed and handed over a cheque. The shop clerk was a little bit concerned because it was the first time he saw the couple shopping in this store. The young men saw through the clerk's mind. He said to the clerk in a very calm voice: "I feel that you are worried about this cheque, right? Today is Saturday, the bank is closed. I leave the cheque and the handbag in the shop. After you cash the cheque on Monday, could you please send this handbag to the girl's home, is that okay?" The clerk was quite pleased accepting the suggestion, and promised generously to deliver the handbag on all the cost of the store. On Monday, the clerk took the cheque to the bank and found out it's fraudulent! Irritatedly, the clerk made a phone call to the young man. However, the young man said to the clerk still in a very calm voice: "Everything is fine! You don't lost anything and neither do I." "Oh by the way, I've slept with that girl last Saturday. Thanks for your cooperation." The merit of this story reveals the nature of the sub-prime crisis. People who full of good expectations for future earnings may increase the risk of a lack of awareness, especially when the huge investment is based on non-transparency and uncertainty. The beautiful girl naturally relaxed vigilance after thought she had already had LV handbag. To pack the future earnings expectations is the financial institutions in Wall St do their best. In this story, the young man is Goldman Sachs and its peer investment firms, the clerk who often plays a role in coordination is the U.S. federal government. Sadly, the beautiful innocent girl who got screwed in the end is the average investors ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSoon, will come very soon. Still trapped in Oracle SOA world at the moment :-) — And yet I still don't see the Galaxy Nexus anywhere :(
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGoing to visit Telstra shop at Burke St soon! — And yet I still don't see the Galaxy Nexus anywhere :(
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOn Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was working towards setting up a "fiscal union", beyond the existing "monetary union", in an effort to impose budget discipline by members. — In a customs union, which is what the European Union is, the member gives up its sovereign right to determine its own tariffs on traded goods imported from other countries. Likewise, in a monetary union, the member country also gives up its right to adjust the own exchange rate of its currency to meet any national economic contingency. Thus, each country gives up a sovereign right for the benefits that it expects from union. Prof. Robert Mundell, known as the father of Euro, said three conditions are needed to make a currency union successful. First, no members of the union are to be hit by economic shocks that are too severe while other members do well. In short, economic shocks cannot be asymmetric among the members. Second, the members of the currency union have flexible labor markets: that is, labor is mobile across countries and, what is almost equivalent, wages are allowed to adjust downward when conditions are bad in order to keep labor fully employed. Third, there is a centralised fiscal authority that transfers money and other resources from countries doing well to those doing poorly. The presence of fiscal authority provides stability to the currency. In short, for monetary union success, there ought to be some measure of fiscal union too. The reality is that all three conditions are not fully met. Lack of fiscal authority across the EMU was demonstrated when Greece faced its debt crisis. It took the Economic Union a long time to device what turned out to be an inadequate fiscal and monetary support system to avert the impending Greek debt problem from escalating. Also, the labor markets of individual countries need major reforms, but there is resistance to make the social welfare system conform to the requirements of greater labor market flexibility. So, the social support system remains expensive and unaffordable for many countries. Mundell said that those highly indebted nations were too generous with their welfare programs. "Europe's problem isn't because of poverty, but a lack of reasonable fiscal restraint," Mundell was cited as saying, adding that he believes European nations can overcome the current crisis with help from the IMF. “To break up or not to break up” that is the question ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonApple starts losing battles now. It's a good sign.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoUnison's assistant general secretary Karen Jennings said Clarkson had spoken "almost like Gaddafi wold have spoken about demonstrators". Unison general secretary Dave Prentis welcomed Clarkson's apology, urging him to spend a day with public sector workers in a hospital, "cleaning up sick, bathing patients, and wiping bottoms". — Clarkson's comment refers to massive striking among public-sector workers in the UK to protest austerity measures, including pension reform, proposed in response to the UK's government debt. The strikes have ignited a public hatefest among government wonks and public figures.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyThe Android tablet to get!
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyThinner and lighter than an iPad 2, powerful than an Ultrabook. What else do you want? — http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI suggest you turn on all your computing devices (PC, server, network, tablet and smart phone) in winter as the space heater replacement ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonTurn on your G+. I'm sitting next to a talking-all-the-way-on-your-phone idiot on the train at the moment. — At YOW next to +Dean Budd
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Casper Casper That's how law work in this country. That's why you see your super be rolled over and over each time change of the federal government. — Go +Terrence Miao go, you know you want one!!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonThanks for that. Unfortunately, I can only give my moral but not financial support for Galaxy Tablet now. It's too late. Unless Samsung can sell it at the price like what you can find in $2 shop :-) My eyes are now on Asus Transformer Prime, the Android tablet to rule them all! Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, ICS, $499 - $599, will be available in just a week or two. Sorry, hardly to resist the temptation ... — Go +Terrence Miao go, you know you want one!!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoShit, how can you forget Ada! the only OO language for U.S. military. — The family tree of all the programming languages you even only know the name
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCan't find my favourite programming language - BPEL in it ... — The family tree of all the programming languages you even only know the name
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSo that's why Mayan cut the stone in a round shape (see the picture). Life and reincarnation recycled again and again ...
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Commented on post by Casper CasperLanguage like the history of animals, evolving, hybridising, eating, be eaten ... — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYwPTUKvdw&feature=player_embedded
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThanks for that. I have lived in a communist country I know what meaning of debauch the currency. Communism is good in theory but bad in practice. Long live capitalism :-) — Word of the day - Fiat money is money that has value only because of government regulation or law. The term derives from the Latin fiat, meaning "let it be done", as such money is established by government decree, e.g., the dollar and the euro. Then it comes to our Quote of the day - "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero." -- Voltaire
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDon't know what you mean, but sounds a bit rude and I like it :-) — I think I'm developing Stockholm Syndrome for Maven :(
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Commented on post by Bryan Murphy+James Gemmell J, maybe you should have a look latest development of the future of fusion - http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_policy/1.2657141
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyI believe new technology will overcome the shortcomings the solution currently used to generate renewable energy. Keep researching and developing on new solution. It's road without U-turn.
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniWhat camera did you use to take these photos? — Beautiful day to be down at the lake today. I took the camera with me for a cycle and snapped some pretty pics.
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Commented on post by Bryan Murphy+Alex Megremis In Australia, four big banks are "too big to fail". In U.S., Citi, Bank of America, Well Fargo are "too big to fail". All the other banks, include investment banks all can fail except Goldman Sachs because GS is doing God's work. — Interesting comments about Australia too.
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Commented on post by Bryan Murphy1. Big four Aussie banks will be safe. I don't believe any one of them will be belly up because they have the ability to maneuver, they are too big to fail. Any one fall, the whole country will be collapsed, which is most not likely. And I believe federal government will save them, although will come with tough restriction. 2. When free money dry up, business and people are hard to borrow money from banks. A couple, two are all my former colleagues, borrowed $850K for their new investment property from ANZ. That's new debt added on their already two other investment properties. This is just after GFC when Melbourne property market had its mini-boom. I just can't believe ANZ is so shameless, voracious to its customers. I asked my bank how much I can borrow during Euro crisis. Bankwest told me no more than half a million. Of course, I sod my banker off. I earn more than the total income of this couple. You can see banks can adapt themselves under different circumstance. Interest rate won't go up, only to go down in next a few years. Australian are already heavily in debt. One quarter percent increase will hurt a lot people. But the time interest rate hits 10% won't happen here again I reckon. — Interesting comments about Australia too.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyAsset bubble is always a concern. This bubble already in U.S, U.K., Japan, Australia and China. Don't know about U.S. and U.K. situation there. Japan property price is about half to the peak time. But Australia and China are different. First, two countries economy are still sound. Secondly, Australian have the ability to allocate more money into the mortgage to reduce the debt, which people in other countries can't. Chinese have the highest saving rate, about 30% of their income. Except their house, other living cost are very low. The "pension" for people without income is about $100 per month in big cities. That money can let you survive. So, property bubble will be deflated but not crashed in Australia and China. There are two world wars, great depression, but Australian stock market is still opened for business. If big four Aussie banks share could hit historical low, I will put all my free money and buy more of them. — Interesting comments about Australia too.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI will call that experienced, efficiently, but not dogmatically follow good practice and design pattern than extremely disciplined. Good tools, framework and computer language give you a solid foundation to build a "house", but doesn't guarantee you a finish, doesn't guarantee your "house" can still stand there 100 years later. How do you design, how do you make selection, how do you engineer, how do you manage the project, that's developers' creativity parts. Spanking developers bare butts, under the form of discipline, won't let them smart up. In the end, software is a human being's product. If there are tools and compilers are so good, anyone can just press a button to get work done. Why do we need to have a hot debate here for? — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWarning: Uncle Bob demos IntelliJ on a MacBook Pro! — Ever wanted to Pair Program with Uncle Bob?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddMore tutorial videos on http://www.cleancoders.com/ — Ever wanted to Pair Program with Uncle Bob?
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyBefore Chinese big banks became public companies, each bank has bad loan around 14% of the asset. After IPO floating and injection of money from central government, bad load reduced to 2 - 3%. And top five biggest banks in China are the most profit banks in the world. The top one bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China made $24b profit in 2010, more than combination profit of CBA, WBC, ANZ and NAB. Don't think this guy has good argument to short Agricultural Bank of China which made $14b profit in 2010. Check: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/performers/companies/profits/ — Interesting comments about Australia too.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperIt's an euphemistic way to say that there is a key factor to make a language success. Just like Windows can't be so popular without Solitaire and Minesweeper, Nintendo without Super Mario ... — This guy really hates scala. Check out Fantom : http://fantom.org/
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Dean Budd Deano, let me know when you have a team with five extremely disciplined any language developers, I will follow up. <Wuhahaha /> — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Casper CasperC has Unix. C++ has all share libraries. Java has j2ee. Ruby has Rails. Scala and Haskell needs a killer application. Otherwise, they can't get into the mainstream, and never accepted by the big business. — This guy really hates scala. Check out Fantom : http://fantom.org/
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoEmail just arrives from Google about "Google Wave Sunsetting in 2012". GWT? Don't know yet :-) — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Alex Megremis GMail is not GWT. — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCan't understand why less and small is not beautiful if you can just get the job done. Don't you get headache every time when someone says it's big and heavy? Sorry I haven't convinced GWT is good enough let me put my money on, even it's Google backed. Playing jQuery wrapper for an application, playing Ajax built in jQuery now. As concise as a poem, as sharp as a scalpel, jQuery gives you a blissful experience than what you can ask I reckon. — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoI can't see the difference that after 2 years and 40 developers get their hands on GWT. Google doesn't have its confidence. The only product implemented by GWT in Google Google Wave is dead now. Remind me any other successful cases on GWT? I have doubt how long GWT can last. Will Google abandon it? — "You would often be punching in 3X to 5X more code than you would with other client libraries – like jQuery – to get simple things done" Errrr, big and heavy, GWT?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBTW, Windows 7 runs Oracle Fusion. There is no port for Fusion on OSX at the moment. According to some analysts, Apple to Become World’s Biggest PC Maker - http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/11/22/apple-to-become-worlds-biggest-pc-maker-canalys/ — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Kieran Simpson That's what I'm talking about, buy a new MacBook Pro with more RAM :-) — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWe should stop here now. It's story starts about Intellj and see what we end with. Deano, I blame you for misleading the public ... — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper Can't run a VM in 4GB only Mac. I know it's all possible you can customise your keyboard layout to fits personal favourite. But it just takes time to do and to upgrade and maintain it. Time is scarce commodity to developers. We need grap a laptop can start working right away than spend a few days make yourself comfy. Anyway give it try, Deano, Casper and die-hard boy Mr. J. — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper The combo keys of Copy/Paste on MacBook Pro keyboard have the shortest distance than Windows keyboard. It takes less than 0.01ms faster even you have a pair scissor hands that Deano's has. It's a blissful UX after switch to it from Windows keyboard. — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper Yes, I do. I carry two laptops (one Mac, one Windows 7) to work every workday. +Dean Budd Basically, MacBook Pro is an Unix box. I spend more time inside Terminal Windows than fancy OSX apps, if you don't count Chrome, Eclipse. JDestroyer ... — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Casper Casper Not convenient carry a Windows laptop and my favourite keyboard on the bike, train, tram and visit client site everyday. Keyboard is crucial if you type 10 hours everyday on it. I haven't come across a better laptop keyboard than MacBook Pro except old great IBM Thinkpad. But Thinkpad is no more after Lenovo bought it out and destroyed this brand. — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Dean Budd Deano, give a try on MacBook Pro for a few months, feel its keyboard, feel its copy & paste, feel its switching between apps ... It burns less your energy and brain oil to get your codes done I reckon. It's a workhorse, not a game box. — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIntelliJ is features richer and faster evolution product compared with Eclipse. Performance is sluggish on a slow box, however, it's not a major drawback. I was convinced to buy my next laptop is MacBook Pro is because it's an Unix, actually a fast & stable BSD box (I have a lot respect and admire of FreeBSD), make you do repetitive work quickly. Apple made the hardware feel better. And OSX has less applications than Windows and you can't play a lot games on it which is good for maintenance and make it tidy. All other things are irrelevant. Absolutely not an Apple fan. Will keep Windows 7 aside, and keep it honest and keep kicking Apple's asses when it becomes fat, lazy and slow down ... — IntelliJ 11 looking awesome! Looking forward to trying out their CoffeeScript support...
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyAwesome! Added into wish list.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperData should be as data to be. Why do you need XML be chucked into db clob? That's not only anti-pattern, but against Physical Law and Natural Rules ... — http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGoogle really gets some sleek way boosting webpage performance! Don't know any other websites are doing the same sleek approach.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSimon Jones also presents keynotes in Melbourne - http://www.yowconference.com.au/YOW2011/general/details.html?speakerId=2208&utm_source=YOW+Master+13.7.11&utm_campaign=f79ee7e0f8-Few_Short_Days_11_2011&utm_medium=email — Functional Programming nerds unite!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson+Kieran Simpson You must be joking. How a big, fat, bald, smelly, heavy smoking, drunken programmer, even know how to boot up Xcode on their MacBook Pro can be COOL? +Casper Casper People who invents the game, people who designs the graphic and music in the game are cool people. Programmers are slaves or working bees if they don't think and don't argue. — Programmers were always cool.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoMe too. Swiss should be one of the most conservative and well disciplined and may I say "cunning" investors. Maybe it's just a typo, Kyle Mass really means Swaziland, not Switzerland :-) — Making a killing This is better story about Kyle Bass. Also explain inside Greece government and country, how can they accumulate such a big high debt. Kyle Bass bought 20 million nickels, the American five-cent coins. "The metal in a nickel is worth 6.8 cents," he said. "Did you know that?"
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWow, check the comparison Flash vs. HTML 5 after conversion Flash by Swiffy - http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/gallery.html
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyI have seen a few photos of this year National Geographic contest. But not all set. Thanks for sharing! — This looks like the sort of thing you would be interested in based on some of your other posts
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Commented on post by Casper CasperSame as plain packaging cigarette? - http://www.plain-packaging.com/images/background.packs.jpg
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonRate cut fails to lift spending: Interview Westpac CEO Gail Kelly - http://www.abc.net.au/insidebusiness/content/2011/s3357263.htm
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSomeone calls it stalking, Facebook calls it 'love'. Facebook is making itself the most famous stalker in history!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoKeynes is famous of his radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism. — Quote of the day - The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle Music is an Apple's iPod & iPhone Killer application! - http://music.google.com/about/ — Google Music is going to be officially announced on Nov 16th. Google News, Google TV, Google Games, Google Music ... What the next? Google Movie? Is Google going to take over entertainment industry?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNice!
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyGreat tip: modify the time clock on your PC and smartphone, so your eBook could be never expired. Give a try! <hahaha /> — Ebooks from the library. Melbourne Library Service can be joined by anyone living in Victoria. You sign up online and then turn up to a branch (there is one in the city) and once they confirm your identity and address (eg Drivers Licence) you are can start borrowing.
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyJust back from Melbourne Library. The library card is in my pocket now. Library serves as a no-man service center. You only "talk" to computers and scanners. But don't bet you can steal some books or game DVDs or out. Security cameras are inside and outside ... — Ebooks from the library. Melbourne Library Service can be joined by anyone living in Victoria. You sign up online and then turn up to a branch (there is one in the city) and once they confirm your identity and address (eg Drivers Licence) you are can start borrowing.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperAmazing!
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonpatent system was broken and the US patent office had granted protection to broad, vague or unoriginal ideas masquerading as inventions. You can look at the development of the software industry and see a point when [software wasn't being patented] and it was a period of intense innovation Great argument! — How many has he sold so far? "To be honest with you, we've stopped counting ... our servers were almost collapsing on a number of occasions." Is this another example of the Streisand effect in action?
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyDon't think Road Safety Authority like TAC will grant a flying license to it :-) — Innovative idea but you wouldn't want to drop the remote control.
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Commented on post by Justin GanHow about isolate people on FB? — I quite like Google+ but Facebook has a 5 year head start!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy didn't the thieves steal 6000 copies of Windows 7?! Windows 7 is more valuable than a game. Only difference is that game carries bliss over to you, and M$ gives a full pain in the back ... — Masked Bandits Steal 6000 Copies Of Modern Warfare 3 http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/masked-bandits-steal-6000-copies-of-modern-warfare-3/
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Commented on post by Justin GanOld doesn't mean it's always good -- — I quite like Google+ but Facebook has a 5 year head start!
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Commented on post by Bryan MurphyNice! Low end ICS solution. — Another 720p phone for your consideration http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/htcs-new-ice-cream-sandwich-capable-rezound-arrives-with-720p-display
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBill Gates was a college dropout. Steve Jobs was. Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook both were. Blackadder: "Fabulous, university education, you can't beat it"
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpsonhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056160/Warsaw-plane-crash-Newark-Boeing-767-flight-lands-wheels.html That you can call a hard landing!
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Commented on post by Alex MegremisAt least you should have built Linux kernel before, right? — 16GB RAM on the laptop becoming affordable: http://www.ramexperts.com/corsair-16gb-2-x-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm-ddr3-1333-laptop-memory-cmso16gx3m2a1333c9.html
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Commented on post by Alex MegremisSorry, to build latest Android ICS you need at least 16GB RAM - http://tabletroms.com/index.php/2011/10/23/getting-ready-to-build-ics-from-android-source-code-heavy-duty-machines-required/ — 16GB RAM on the laptop becoming affordable: http://www.ramexperts.com/corsair-16gb-2-x-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm-ddr3-1333-laptop-memory-cmso16gx3m2a1333c9.html
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBill Gates told Walter Isaacson that Steve Jobs was "fundamentally odd" and "weirdly flawed as a human being." As Gates put it, Jobs was either in the mode of saying you were shit or trying to seduce you." Good point! — It seems Apple owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Gates' firm - because the iconic iPad would never have been created had a Microsoft employee not boasted to Jobs over dinner that they had a revolutionary tablet in production. 'This dinner was like the tenth time he talked to me about it, and I was so sick of it that I came home and said, "F**k this, let's show him what a tablet can really be",' Jobs said. ... In November 1983, where Gates revealed his firm was developing a new operating system with a graphic interface. A furious Jobs said to him: 'I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us'. To which Gates replied: 'Well, Steve... I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out you had already stolen it.'
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Commented on post by Alex MegremisOh, run and build Ice Cream Sandwich? — 16GB RAM on the laptop becoming affordable: http://www.ramexperts.com/corsair-16gb-2-x-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm-ddr3-1333-laptop-memory-cmso16gx3m2a1333c9.html
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Commented on post by Alex MegremisNice! Do you upgrade your MacBook Pro right away? — 16GB RAM on the laptop becoming affordable: http://www.ramexperts.com/corsair-16gb-2-x-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm-ddr3-1333-laptop-memory-cmso16gx3m2a1333c9.html
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Commented on post by Dean Budd+Alex Megremis Thanks mate. Feel much comfortable now after change the density. Good tip! — Quite like the new GMail look!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHmmm, I have a different opinion. I reckon there are too much space, between emails. I see less emails showing up in a full screen mode. This is theme maybe for tablet device. Not for desktop. A wish that Google can remove all the ads in Gmail so people can see more content than disruption. -- — Quite like the new GMail look!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHow could BBC put a nobody from nowhere with NIL credential to talk on a world wide TV channel, stirring up the rumour hole, scaring people's shit out? — I don't know whether I should trust a trader on the trading floor or economists in the main street ...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsoniPhone 4S only has 200 hours standby time, 300 hours for iPhone 4 and 3GS: http://www.apple.com/iphone/compare-iphones/ Dual core processor and Siri, not flash kill the battery this time ... — That's a pretty nasty bug.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson1. No smartphone is still loved after two years. 2. You can re-sell you unloved smartphone on eBay before it is getting older. 3. Old iPhone can be updated to the last version, but also ready to be choked to death. 4. If you want to save money, play with the emulator in SDK but don't buy a real physical smartphone. — An iPhone dev at work posted this. One Android user I know has said it's the reason he's going to go to an iPhone when he's out of contract - fear of being (rightly) left behind by telcos/manufacturers that don't care.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonNAB just announced $5.5b full year profit yesterday. What's wrong? :-P — Kudos to the mum!
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Commented on post by Tom LimDon't worry, just get touchscreen done, people still work on other parts. — I don't quite get the point of these "future technologies" videos, but they are pretty cool to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a6cNdhOKwi0
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoGoogle Hangouts is frigging awesome! — Terrence Miao hung out with 1 person.Alan Lu
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHoly sheet! Great frontpage title on The Age today - http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/maxs-privacy-war-brings-facebook-to-heel-20111027-1mksg.html — In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, Austrian student Max Schrems sits with files about his activities on his Facebook account that Facebook handed over to him, in Vienna, Austria. Schrems wasn't quite sure what information about himself Facebook would send him after he filed a request with the social networking giant to receive his personal data, as is required under European law. It certainly wasn't the stack of 1,222 pages worth on a CD that inspired him to launch an online campaign aimed at forcing the social media behemoth to abide by European data privacy laws something the Palo Alto, California-based company insists it already does. Since August, some 350,000 people have visited the site, dubbed "Europe vs. Facebook," and flooded Facebook's European branch, based in Ireland, with requests for their personal data. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHe must has spent too much time on Facebook! — In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, Austrian student Max Schrems sits with files about his activities on his Facebook account that Facebook handed over to him, in Vienna, Austria. Schrems wasn't quite sure what information about himself Facebook would send him after he filed a request with the social networking giant to receive his personal data, as is required under European law. It certainly wasn't the stack of 1,222 pages worth on a CD that inspired him to launch an online campaign aimed at forcing the social media behemoth to abide by European data privacy laws something the Palo Alto, California-based company insists it already does. Since August, some 350,000 people have visited the site, dubbed "Europe vs. Facebook," and flooded Facebook's European branch, based in Ireland, with requests for their personal data. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonMax asked Facebook to send him a record of his personal data from three years of using the site. What the 24-year-old Austrian law student didn't expect, though, was 1,222 pages of data on a CD. Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/10/austrian-student-takes-facebook-over-privacy#ixzz1bt2kxbEq
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonShout out to +Dean Budd ... with very few achieving the holy grail of SOA. Meanwhile, the web has essentially become a service oriented platform. Does it make sense to you?
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Commented on post by Casper CasperMy mind is bending and burning! Good one.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoDon't care. Who is Rupert the Doll anyway? — Quick Poll: Do you want to pay the subscription fee for The Australian online service? (http://www.theaustralian.com.au) The Australian, especially its Wall St Journal section, has a lot of high quality articles. Used to be free to read them online. But not any more, after the News of the World scandal.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNot sure. I'm more confused than ever. — Quick Poll: Do you want to pay the subscription fee for The Australian online service? (http://www.theaustralian.com.au) The Australian, especially its Wall St Journal section, has a lot of high quality articles. Used to be free to read them online. But not any more, after the News of the World scandal.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNo way, go to hell Rupert the Doll! — Quick Poll: Do you want to pay the subscription fee for The Australian online service? (http://www.theaustralian.com.au) The Australian, especially its Wall St Journal section, has a lot of high quality articles. Used to be free to read them online. But not any more, after the News of the World scandal.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYes, I will if it won't let me down! — Quick Poll: Do you want to pay the subscription fee for The Australian online service? (http://www.theaustralian.com.au) The Australian, especially its Wall St Journal section, has a lot of high quality articles. Used to be free to read them online. But not any more, after the News of the World scandal.
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Commented on post by Casper CasperUse With Caution. Buy a MacBook Pro and develop Android app on it.
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Commented on post by Terrence Miao+Michael Poloni Well mate, you have to forget QWERTY keyboard and learn how to use touch screen. The world is changing. Of course, voice input is becoming popular. Better with Telstra I recommend. Their service is bad, but infrastructure is good, plus 4G network. Trust me, I don't own Telstra shares :-) — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThis is possibly my first ever smart phone! I'm current have a Nokia 5880. It has a colour screen. Not bad! — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoCorporate is like a big tree. Looking up see a lot asses, looking down see a lot smiling faces, looking left and right see a lot eyes and ears. Good will climbing up this tree every year. So you can see more smiling faces, and less asses ... — Zen of the day - "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you can see of its bottom."
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSorry, I'm living behind the main stream :-)
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Commented on post by Casper CasperYou will be taking pictures without worrying about pesky details such as focus, lighting, shutter speed and exposure. Lytro can capture every ray of light within a camera's field of view. The technique is called "light field capture" which records various aspects of a light ray such as color, intensity, and direction. Regular cameras, Lytro says, merely record all the light rays without discerning the subtleties. The result is that you can easily snap images and adjust them for focus and other attributes after the fact on your PC. You can do things like switch the photo's point of focus from the foreground to the background, change the image's perspective and even switch the photo from a 2D to a 3D image. Shoot first. Focus later Check the demo - http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures/168/166
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Commented on post by Casper CasperFantastic! A good mind twist to Average Joe!
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Commented on post by Casper CasperI reckon human being's mind still faster and more sophisticated than ARM powered smartphone. Only missing parts is our fingers not faster than the robot's which can make hundreds turn in a second. Feliks Zemdegs from Australia made the record in Melbourne Winter Open 2011 in 5.66 seconds. http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/rubik.html
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html Download SDK and have a first taste mouth watering Ice Cream Sandwich in emulator. — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoBuy buy buy! Sell your children and buy this phone :-D Ice Cream Sandwich is the soul of this platform. I can feel the similarities of Google Plus and Honeycomb inside it. Also I try to imagine how Ice Cream Sandwich looks like when it is powered on a tablet. Appreciate Google engineers deliver Android 4.0 that unifies tablet and smartphone software, and the first time you could put the fragmental apps under the same hood. — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoAndroid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and Google Nexus smartphone announcement can be watched live-streamed on Android's YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/android on Oct 19th, 1pm Melbourne time. Can't wait more ... — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoIf you don't read Japanese on the photo, I can explain them to you, ..., in Japanese. — Update: Google next smartphone leaked before the announcement today: • 4.65-inch AMOLED screen • Dimensions of 5.4 × 2.7 × 0.45 inches (slightly thicker than the 0.36-inch iPhone 4 and 0.36-inch Nexus S) • 4.8 ounces • 32GB ROM • 1GB RAM • 1750 mAh battery • Micro USB 2.0 • Bluetooth 3.0 + HS • CDMA, GSM, LTE, HSPA, EDGE, EV-DO • The screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 is a marvel on its own too, boasting an unprecedented 720p display on a phone • On the back is an ample 5MP camera that will capture video at 1080p, while the front has its own 1.3MP cam, all wedged into a body 9mm thin • Android 4.0 - mouth watering Ice Scream Sandwich
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoThing on the right is to make a dump. — Squatting and dumping Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1 and the protection case (a shameless but a bargain duplicator of Apple iPad 2 case. Only $8) I borrow from colleague to play with. Colleague bought it on eBay from Hong Kong. I plugin my Telstra 3G SIM card. Wola! It works! HPSA+ network! It is also compatible with the headphone and data / charge cable from Samsung Galaxy Tab 7". MacBook Pro 15" I'm using to make a ...
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Commented on post by Casper CasperSaw another demo on Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5850643/what-the-hell-magnets-why-are-you-so-amazing
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Commented on post by Tom LimCan't get it. +Dean Budd Deano, please explain! — I'm not going to pretend I understand this, but it turns out faster than light travel was a miscalculation. Crisis over. http://www.kurzweilai.net/faster-than-light-neutrino-puzzle-claimed-solved-by-special-relativity
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Commented on post by Casper CasperSaw two kids in a Telstra shop on Sunday. They yelled louder and closely to a new demo iPhone 4S and tried to call a mobile number. I felt a surge of emotion slapping them - "Just don't make a call that way!" — http://searchengineland.com/head-to-head-siri-vs-google-voice-actions-96998
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHahaha, I know my hands are dirty. Thanks for reminding! — Finally finished our study group on Domain Driven Design The team(s) have emerged with a much clearer understanding of how to approach Domain Modelling. Well worth it as a study group topic.
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoSoon will be. Dead like a dodo. — Right before my Google Buzz on the track to make the first profit in the coming hi-tech bubbles, Google decides close it. Just brillant!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWe both agree completely about what's wrong with this world, but we have difference about how to put it right. Your answer is DDD. My is SOA ... Hahaha! — Finally finished our study group on Domain Driven Design The team(s) have emerged with a much clearer understanding of how to approach Domain Modelling. Well worth it as a study group topic.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonBuy next generation Samsung Galaxy tablet. Wait for quad-core tablets flood into the market. Only two months away to Xmas. — Totally sucks.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFrigging awesome! — Loving CSS3...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYou should see the online games button on the top of the page in G+ now — Have you played web based online games in G+? Bloody awesome!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSushi or Sashimi, which do you want? <haha /> — Am I missing something?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSamsung, Google delay Galaxy Nexus launch out of respect for Jobs http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20117161-17/galaxy-nexus-launch-delayed-due-to-jobs-death/ — Shout out to +Mike Nguyen for the link...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddEven more excellent news is that new iPhone 4S doesn't support Telstra 4G ... — Shout out to +Mike Nguyen for the link...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddShould remind you guys this phone supports LTE, Telstra 4G LTE has opened for business. — Shout out to +Mike Nguyen for the link...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddGoing to upgrade your Samsung Galaxy II? — Shout out to +Mike Nguyen for the link...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYeah, Siri is not the highlight, but the brightest light in the latest iPhone 4S event. — Siri in action... looks pretty impressive.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIf Apple reckons their iPhone still has market appealing, they should check the latest market share in U.S. between Android and iOS, 43% vs. 19%. It more like an evidence of turning point that a company losing its grip of market domination after a few years. Should Apple keeps sledging its patent axe to survive? — I've never seen so much innovation in one go! hahaha
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFrom all the leaked information I collected from informed source, the photos have revealed a real closed look what Google Phone III like. — Looks very nice!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddA quite shitty day?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonGood price, comparing them to the same products on eBay, shipped from HongKong. — One has to wonder what Kogan was thinking. http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/tablets/kogan-buckles-to-apple-legal-threats-20110926-1ksz6.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYep, some articles already indicated it's buying opportunity, ... , for brave men <hahaha /> — This should make Terry happy ;-) http://www.theage.com.au/business/gold-a-safe-haven-no-more-20110926-1kt81.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonSamsung has sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide in five months. The winners are Deano, and all other who bought Galaxy S II. — One has to wonder what Kogan was thinking. http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/tablets/kogan-buckles-to-apple-legal-threats-20110926-1ksz6.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonYeah, come across this news on the train in the morning. Let me repeat my words "No one knows what the next stop Gold is going to land." :-P BTW, Australian Bullion Exchange open next month, retail investors can buy physical gold via the brokers. Check - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903791504576584252590494940.html Any comments Mr. J? — This should make Terry happy ;-) http://www.theage.com.au/business/gold-a-safe-haven-no-more-20110926-1kt81.html
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDrivers are terrorists to police. — Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/30RIYPX4BFU/Canberra-Police-Want-Drones-To-Track-Cars
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Commented on post by Dean BuddSame tabloid paper Telegraph has a new article that prof. Stephen Hawkins suspect the findings - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8785366/Science-world-in-shock-after-Cern-light-speed-claim.html Jim Al-Khalili, professor of Physics at Surrey University, said: "The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings. If the neutrinos have broken the speed of light, it would overturn a keystone theory from the last century of physics." "If the CERN experiment proves to be correct and neutrinos have broken the speed of light, I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV.” Deano, can't let you runaway from this post without eating your boxer shorts <hahaha /> — New equation : E = MC*Hammer!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddOne thing becomes true that travelling faster than the speed of light is you can turn back time. Time machine is possible. I just can't wait for Telegraph UK turns the all universe upside down ... — New equation : E = MC*Hammer!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWell, start getting more interesting in Rugby games now :-D This is the more proper way to promote a sport! — The Rules of Rugby!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou just can't read science and art section in a tabloid newspaper. There articles only attract nothing but a lot eye balls. Save people's time, turn off these kind of non-sense on your Plus next time Deano! — New equation : E = MC*Hammer!
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Commented on post by Chris FithallGood lucks Chris. Hope you can find and work on more interesting project soon. Cheers. — Starting the last day of my latest, my longest and probably my last stint working at nab. Spent almost two and a half years working on Internet Banking this time. Bit sad leaving really - great people/great project. No rest though. Heading to Portsmouth NH via LA and Boston tomorrow for two weeks' training before starting my next role.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHmmm, need to find a volunteer would like sacrifice his/her children on the holy test grail. Anyone wants to put up your hand? — Anyone used WindowLicker?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddNoooooooooooooo! Please let us know how good or bad you reckon. — Anyone used WindowLicker?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddReverse SSH tunnel, runs on mobile along side with i-jetty? — Run a Web Server on your phone!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddI reckon the reason is reasonable if you need to run a web based application on your mobile, in a private not public domain. For example, control panel, SQLite client, offline web apps ... You can just deploy and re-use tons of existing and free these web apps, rather than bothering develop a native app on Android. Potentials are simply huge ... — Run a Web Server on your phone!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFirst ever web server for Android? — Run a Web Server on your phone!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddCool Choice Online site!
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWelcome to the United States of Australia. <hahahaha /> You can defer but you can't purge.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddStill waiting ... Where is your email Deano! Did you send to /dev/null? — Just saw an awesome use of AOP... for caching. Never crossed my mind before.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis is just skirmish. Big IT war is coming soon after acquisition :-) — The Android patent wars are over...
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Commented on post by Casper Casperhttp://bowlerframework.org/ — http://typesafe.com/stack
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Commented on post by Dean BuddLong way to catch up Chrome on number which is release 13 at the moment. Don't know how FF Add-on, plugin developers can keep up the pace upgrading their codes. Firefox 4, released on March 22, 2011, 5 on June 21, 6 on August 16. I'm still on FF 3.6 to make all plugins I use happy. — Good God!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddBlame global warming? — Shout Out to my cuz Wade for the photo...
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI use Github Mac version for a period time then find it it's too intuitive. Back to the command line to I know exactly what I'm doing. — Had a big Mercurial session with the team. They're loving it more and more.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThanks Deano. Thanks for sharing your thought. Will do more research then make a decision. Cheers! — Any thoughts on Plone vs Drupal vs Joomla? I've always been biased towards Drupal...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHi Deano, have your monkeys finished evaluating Concrete5? How good is it? There is project under my belt to set up Drupal for the company. But I'm always lousy of PHP. Is there any good Java or Ruby based CMS? Thanks. — Any thoughts on Plone vs Drupal vs Joomla? I've always been biased towards Drupal...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddRemind me time to watch this movie during time of GFC Mark II — Watched Inside Job last night... really good.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy are you so mouth water full on Google+, but so mouth muzzled on Google buzz recently?
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonDeano, take a long holiday break. Then visit your local GP after you come back.
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Commented on post by Kieran Simpson@J Scala won't fix JVM's bug. My point is comparing the new features added in Java 7, that won't change the fundmental shortsighted design in language. Java maintains its compatibility to old "fault" codes, so I don't think much room to turn around. Mind you in Scala 3, there is backwards-incompatible issue to version 2.x. Will see whether you want to keep a better language, or keep bad codes. — ^Oracle continuing it's tradition of quality greatness^ - Java 7 has a major bug!! - http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI'm with Telstra with no issues.This time paid premium works.
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonI can't see the end of the tunnel of Java. I'm totally brain washed by Mr. B. Learn and write your Java codes in Scala. — ^Oracle continuing it's tradition of quality greatness^ - Java 7 has a major bug!! - http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/
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Commented on post by Kieran SimpsonWhere is Dislike button on Google+? Go Git! :-) — Had a big Mercurial session with the team. They're loving it more and more.
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Commented on post by Ryan AlaviMove on? — Last hour at Sensis
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Commented on post by Casper Casper- “System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data.” - “Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data.” WTF is that?!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddThis is future version of Microsoft Surface - http://www.youtube.com/user/mssurface
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhat's the problem with you Deano? Why do you need to raise race issue? You are white and you speak damned perfect Her Majesty English. Unless you believe you are a long missing son from one of Australian Aboriginal tribes. <Hahaha /> — Clayton Bigsby : Black White Supremacist WARNING : Do not watch if you are sensitive to issues of race
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHehe Reza, I got a lot noise at my side. Can't turn off a few louder mouths' stream in Google+ at the moment. They think themselves are celebrities :-) — Have you already felt too noisy on Google+ now after only one week honeymoon?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWho said all these wisdom words? Is that you Deano? — Domain Driven Design and SOA Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is gaining more and more momentum in the recent past to help the teams build software components and services based on the business processes and to speed up the time to market for the new products. Domain driven design is a key element of SOA architecture because it helps in encapsulating the business logic and rules in domain objects. The domain model also provides the language and context with which the service contract can be defined. An SOA effort should include the design and implementation of the domain model if one doesn't already exist. If we put too much emphasis on the SOA services and ignore the importance of domain model, we will end up with an anemic domain model and bloated services in the application architecture. An ideal scenario is the one where DDD effort is implemented iteratively with developing the application layer and SOA components at the same time as these are the direct consumers of domain model elements. With a rich domain implementation, SOA design will become relatively simple by providing a shell (proxy) to the domain objects. But if we focus too much on the SOA layer without a decent domain model in the back-end, the business services will be calling an incomplete domain model, which can result in a brittle SOA architecture.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddYou've exposed your location where you watched Simpsons. Google will target your base and send their spying van to your place soon <hahaha /> — Just watched the Simpsons episode with the guys from The Flight of the Conchords in...'ilarious
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoHahaha shenanigans ... I was not fully convinced when I heard about it. But like to see all these interesting and funny ideas surround Google+. Check more discussion about this rumour - http://www.phonearena.com/news/A-closer-look-at-the-Nexus-Primes-possible-dedicated-Google-button_id20271 — HTC made Google Nexus 3 smartphone will have a dedicated Google+ button.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWhy do you only post it on Google+, not on Buzz anymore? — I named my other printer Peter Tosh cause it's always smokin'!
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Commented on post by Terrence Miaohttp://photovine.com/ — Google's social network 2nd try - Photo sharing. Will be integrated into Google+ soon.
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Commented on post by Dean BuddIs it a bug if you want to -1 and you can -1, that little icon still shows +1. Any thoughts? — Hey Kieran! Guess what! You can +1 comments!
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoYep, that's the feature I prefer Google adds — Where is everyone?! After Google+ comes to town, people seem magically disappear from Google Buzz ...
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoNo, no, no. Buss is still a splint from Google+. I put the same content on Buzz and Plus. — Where is everyone?! After Google+ comes to town, people seem magically disappear from Google Buzz ...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddFor this particular reason, I'll still stick with Buzz for a while ... — So... when to use Buzz and when to use +?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoOne thing I pro Google+ is that it seamlessly integrated Google Account, Gmail, Maps, Buzz services and it can run on Android. Facebook, on the other hand, is just teasing, flirting Facebook ... — Woke up this morning and found I was in Google+ circle. The exuberance bubbled up to the highest point. I sent out thousands invitations after I logged in, including a few of my best mates. Hopefully, they will response my invitation and follow back soon.
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Commented on post by Bruce CooperGood on you Bruce. Hope you have a lot fun working on Android & Cloud! — Just resigned from my position at Unico. A whole bunch of emotions running through me right now...
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Commented on post by Dean BuddTesting Google+ on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet. Very good for a native app (some features, not important features missing). — Just trying the native Google + app on me fancy new Galaxy S2. Looks very nice!
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Commented on post by Dean BuddHow do you search the stream in Google+? Did I miss something, or Google miss one important feature here? — So... when to use Buzz and when to use +?
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Commented on post by Terrence MiaoPro Google+, one reason is that it differentiates and distances to Facebook ... — Woke up this morning and found I was in Google+ circle. The exuberance bubbled up to the highest point. I sent out thousands invitations after I logged in, including a few of my best mates. Hopefully, they will response my invitation and follow back soon.
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Commented on post by Dean Budd"Buzz was like an annoying fly that I wish would leave the room". A former colleague commented about Google Buzz. — So... when to use Buzz and when to use +?
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Commented on post by Dean BuddWith Google+, its intuition, its goodness me user experience, Google Buzz is becoming irrelevant. The question is not how do you integrate Buzz into Plus. The question should be why Google integrates Buzz into Gmail? I do believe Google will kill Buzz at some point. Before Google takes action, it's better you can archive or store your buzzes, which you spent hours searching, making them funny to some place else. Or sell your buzzes and your legacy to Google's rival Twitter for a handy profit. What do you reckon? — So... when to use Buzz and when to use +?
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Commented on post by Michael PoloniYou seem very active on Google+, but silent on Google Buzz, and never ever appeared on Facebook! <hahaha /> — Wilson shared a photo of Sydney in the evening, so I thought I'd share one of Melbourne in the evening :) My phone's camera doesn't do a great job of night time photography either! This photo taken at dusk from the footbridge to the MCG in the park Birrarung Marr. The view back towards the city in the evening is spectacular!